The Trump administration has claimed the police were slow to protect federal agents on Oct. 4, but videos and audio show that their rationale conflates hours of events involving a shooting, a protest, a car crash and a police radio call.
Guided by Leonard Leo, the society built a pipeline for traditional conservative judges. But that might not be enough for President Trump in his second term.
Judge Mark L. Wolf, writing in The Atlantic, said he was stepping down to speak out against the “assault on the rule of law” by President Trump, whom he accused of “targeting his adversaries.”
Deployment can move forward, for now, under a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But legal wrangling will likely continue.
A federal judge has ordered operational leaders of the crackdown to appear before her on Monday to be questioned about their tactics and their use of tear gas.
“Political opposition is not rebellion,” wrote a Seventh Circuit panel, rejecting an attempt by the Trump administration to remove an order by a trial court judge.
The federal judge said she was “profoundly concerned” that federal agents might have violated earlier limits that she had set as the Trump administration has carried out an immigration crackdown.
Dozens of sitting judges shared with The Times their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.
National Guard troops sent to the Chicago area can stay under the Trump administration’s control, but remain barred from operations while a legal fight proceeds, the ruling said.