The teenagers who brutally assaulted DOGE employee Edward “Big Balls” Coristine have walked away with nothing more than probation—no jail, no meaningful punishment, no accountability.
Coristine, a 19-year-old staffer with the Department of Government Efficiency project and a rising star in the effort to clean up Washington, D.C.’s bloated federal bureaucracy, was savagely attacked by a mob of teenagers during an attempted carjacking in early August. The crime occurred in the nation’s capital, just blocks from the seat of American power.
Only two of the estimated dozen assailants were arrested: a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl. This week, in a D.C. courtroom, they pleaded guilty—not to attempted carjacking, not to robbery—but to simple assault, and were sentenced to the judicial equivalent of a participation trophy.
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This was a racist verdict by a racist judge. 
The simple test to apply is if the races has been reversed, the White kids would be in prison.
Equal justice for all! <a href="https://t.co/F8gZ8D3dg0">https://t.co/F8gZ8D3dg0</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1978506015281717272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The boy received a one-year sentence of house arrest. The girl? A mere nine months&#8217; probation and transfer to a local youth shelter. The court emphasized rehabilitation over punishment, and the judge reportedly scolded the girl for drawing on her hand in the courtroom—as if doodling in court were the actual offense.
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The attack was a violent ambush that left Coristine bloodied and concussed. Coristine<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/big-balls-muggers-evade-prison-sentence-get-probation-for-beating-up-doge-employee/"> told</a> Jesse Watters of Fox News:
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As we get to the car and she begins to fumble for the keys, they begin to shout at us, and really quickly I knew something was really off about this situation. So she unlocks the car, I rush her into the driving seat. I close the door behind her and she’s able to lock the doors. Right as I turn around, they’re right up on me — just a few feet away. They slammed me against the car and started throwing a bunch of punches. I keep my hands up. I’m getting a lot of punches here and I’m just trying to protect my head the best way that I can.
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Footage of Coristine’s bruised face and torn clothes went viral. So egregious was the crime that President Donald Trump personally intervened, deploying the National Guard to D.C. and threatening to revoke the city’s home rule. “Crime is totally out of control,” he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126">wrote</a> on Truth Social. “Time to federalize D.C.” Elon Musk, former DOGE head, praised Coristine’s courage and called for urgent reform, saying, “It’s time to federalize D.C.”
But instead of consequences for the attackers, D.C.’s soft-on-crime system delivered a clear message: attack a federal employee in broad daylight and you’ll get a curfew and counseling.
The D.C. Attorney General and prosecutor objected to the light sentences—but their opposition was ignored. Instead, the court took pains to <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/legal/teens-accused-of-attacking-doge-employee-sentenced-to-probation/65-66070bc1-a384-4c0c-a961-7bcc619706a3">explain</a> that juvenile justice is about rehabilitation, not punishment.
Even more galling: both teens are free to roam D.C.—so long as they claim it’s for school or “family obligations.”
Coristine, ever gracious, told one attacker via video, “I hope you can figure things out and be ready for the consequences.”
There were no consequences. Not for the criminals. Only for the city.

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Former President Barack Obama triggered a virtual wave of backlash on Monday when a video clip went viral showing him calling for a Justice Department, FBI, and court system free from the &#8220;meddling&#8221; of politicians.
Obama joined comedian and podcast host Marc Maron for his final episode — and in an obvious attempt to attack Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations under President Donald Trump, he accidentally delivered a knockout punch to his own administration.
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Barack Obama: &#8220;We don&#8217;t want kangaroo courts and trumped up charges. We want our court system and our DOJ and FBI to be playing things straight and not meddling in politics.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/7gJMWGCsO4">pic.twitter.com/7gJMWGCsO4</a>
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&#8220;That’s not who we are. That’s not our idea of America,&#8221; Obama said of the crackdown on urban crime — and the use of ICE agents and National Guard troops to keep order. &#8220;We don’t want masked folks with rifles and machine guns patrolling our streets. We want cops on the beat who know the neighborhood and the kids around, and that’s how we keep the peace around here.&#8221;
He pivoted to the court system then, adding, &#8220;We don’t want kangaroo courts and trumped up charges. That’s what happens in other places that we used to scold for doing that. We want our court system and our Justice Department and our prosecutors and our FBI to be, just playing things straight and looking at the facts and not meddling in politics the way we’ve seen lately. And I think if enough people start not to being in a fetal position, but also not being &#8212; just not worrying about it and and detached from it, but being vigilant, but also saying, you know what – yeah, we can stand up to this. We can call it like we see it. We need people who have whatever platforms they have to be able to say, no, that’s not who we are, and to be willing to get attacked on X by whoever for doing that. And it’s not easy.&#8221;
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But critics were quick to point out that the federal government under Obama had been highly politicized, from lawsuits targeting the Little Sisters of the Poor and an Internal Revenue Service weaponized against conservatives to the Justice Department&#8217;s politically-driven investigation into President Donald Trump.
&#8220;Irony alert,&#8221; Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) posted.
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🚨 Irony alert. <a href="https://t.co/vgNuVmM7Bq">https://t.co/vgNuVmM7Bq</a>
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&#8220;He’s desperate. His legacy is trash and he knows it,&#8221; Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) added.
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He’s desperate. 
His legacy is trash and he knows it. <a href="https://t.co/k9ocR7uAax">https://t.co/k9ocR7uAax</a>
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1978076668381016545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) added, &#8220;Says the guy who presided over the fabrication of the Russian collusion narrative and the IRS targeting of conservatives &#8230;&#8221;
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Says the guy who presided over the fabrication of the Russian collusion narrative and the IRS targeting of conservatives… <a href="https://t.co/7DNVilkfOR">https://t.co/7DNVilkfOR</a>
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1978240382711247118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) added, &#8220;Barack Obama has no business lecturing anyone about &#8216;playing things straight.&#8217; Under Obama’s watch: His IRS targeted conservatives; His DOJ spied on reporters; His FBI wiretapped the Trump campaign; His administration pushed the Russiagate hoax against Trump. Obama set the standard for political meddling, and thank goodness President Trump is there to clean up the mess he and Biden left behind.&#8221;
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Barack Obama has no business lecturing anyone about “playing things straight.”
Under Obama’s watch: 
&#8211; His IRS targeted conservatives 
&#8211; His DOJ spied on reporters 
&#8211; His FBI wiretapped the Trump campaign 
&#8211; His administration pushed the Russiagate hoax against Trump
Obama set the… <a href="https://t.co/oHXU9kDtn3">https://t.co/oHXU9kDtn3</a>
— Congressman Greg Steube (@RepGregSteube) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGregSteube/status/1978116299608789165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The audacity of hypocrites like @barackobama is breathtaking, after what he did to his political opponents,&#8221; actor Nick Searcy commented.
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The audacity of hypocrites like <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@barackobama</a> is breathtaking, after what he did to his political opponents. <a href="https://t.co/5l50a5iCRM">https://t.co/5l50a5iCRM</a>
— Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author (@yesnicksearcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1978139743637385618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is parody, right?&#8221; Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) asked.
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This is parody, right? <a href="https://t.co/3XlteEGMex">https://t.co/3XlteEGMex</a>
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1977955922040537103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘Irony Alert’: Barack Obama Ridiculed For Saying Politics Has No Place In Courts, DOJ

'Irony Alert': Barack Obama Ridiculed For Saying Politics Has No Place In Courts, DOJ

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A Biden-appointed judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to the Chicago area amid widespread immigration enforcement operations. 
U.S. District Judge April Perry issued a two-week temporary <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487574/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487574.67.0_2.pdf">restraining order</a> blocking the activation of the National Guard in Illinois. The Trump administration has said the National Guard is necessary to protect federal property, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. Perry concluded at a hearing on Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security had been citing “unreliable evidence” to justify the deployment. 
Perry’s ruling said that the Trump administration was “temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois.”
The judge said that allowing the National Guard to be deployed would “only add fuel to the fire that the defendants themselves have started,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/chicago-portland-trump-national-guard-deployments-court-hearings-rcna236201">according</a> to NBC. 
A follow-up ruling is scheduled for October 22, when Perry says she will determine whether to extend the injunction another two weeks. The Trump administration has appealed the order. 
The ruling was celebrated by Illinois Democrat Governor JB Pritzker, who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-deploys-national-guard-to-chicago-as-pritzker-melts-down-over-invasion">likened</a> the deployment to an “invasion.” 
“The court confirmed what we all know: There is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago,” he said. 
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/09/federal-judge-set-to-hear-arguments-in-high-stakes-national-guard-hearing">responded</a> by saying that Trump had “exercised his lawful authority to protect federal officers and assets” in the face of “ongoing violent riots and lawlessness, that local leaders like Pritzker have refused to step in to quell.”
“President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities and we expect to be vindicated by a higher court,” she added. 
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller ripped into the judge over the ruling.
“A federal judge seems not to know that federal troops come from many different states. They are, again, federal troops on a federal protective mission,” he <a href="https://x.com/StephenM/status/1976500349792821503">wrote</a> on X. 
There has been a significant federal presence in the Chicago area for the last few weeks as the Trump administration has been carrying out “Operation Midway Blitz” to crack down on illegal immigration. ICE agents have been targeted in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-arrests-two-after-attack-on-border-patrol-in-chicago?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=FBI+Arrests+Two+After+Attack+On+Border+Patrol+In+Chicago">multiple</a> car rammings, according to DHS.

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Biden Judge Blocks National Guard Rollout In Chicago Amid Immigration Crackdown

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Former FBI Director James Comey will go to trial on January 5, after pleading not guilty to charges tied to his handling of the FBI’s Russia investigation.
Comey appeared Wednesday morning before Judge Michael Nachmanoff in Alexandria, Virginia, for his arraignment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He is charged with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
According to the <a href="https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1971357752443404605">indictment</a>, the charges trace back to Comey’s September 2020 congressional testimony about his handling of the FBI’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Prosecutors filed the case just days before the statute of limitations was set to expire on September 30.
The prosecution, led by U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, stated that they expected the trial to last 2-3 days. Nachmanoff set the trial start for January 5 after both sides requested more time. 
“This does not appear to me to be an overly complicated case,” he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/08/us/james-comey-arraignment-fbi">said</a>, according to the New York Times. “I’m not going to force you to go to trial in December if both sides don’t feel they can be ready.”
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Between now and the trial, Comey’s defense team is expected to file several motions to dismiss the case altogether. 
The indictment says that Comey falsely told a senator that he had not “authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports” regarding an FBI investigation into someone identified as “Person 1.” This statement was false, the indictment alleges, because Comey had authorized someone to be an anonymous source for news reports. 
“No one is above the law,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said after the indictment was announced. “Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.”

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Comey Headed To Trial: Ex-FBI Chief Charged With Lying To Congress About Anonymous Leaks

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A Los Angeles jury ordered Johnson &amp; Johnson to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma, finding the company liable in the latest trial alleging its talc products cause cancer.
The family of Mae Moore, a California resident who died at age 88 in 2021, sued the company the same year, claiming J&amp;J&#8217;s talc baby powder products contained asbestos fibers that caused her rare cancer. The jury late on Monday ordered J&amp;J to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages, according to court filings.
The verdict could be reduced on appeal as the U.S. Supreme Court has found that punitive damages should generally be no more than nine times compensatory damages.
Erik Haas, Johnson &amp; Johnson&#8217;s worldwide vice president of litigation, said in a statement that the company plans to immediately appeal, calling the verdict &#8220;egregious and unconstitutional.&#8221;
&#8220;The plaintiff lawyers in this Moore case based their arguments on ‘junk science’ that never should have been presented to the jury,&#8221; Haas said.
The company has said its products are safe, do not contain asbestos, and do not cause cancer. J&amp;J stopped selling talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in 2020, switching to a cornstarch product. Mesothelioma has been linked to asbestos exposure.
Trey Branham, one of the attorneys representing Moore&#8217;s family, said after the verdict that his team is “hopeful that Johnson &amp; Johnson will finally accept responsibility for these senseless deaths.”
J&amp;J is facing lawsuits from more than 67,000 plaintiffs who say they were diagnosed with cancer after using baby powder and other talc products, according to court filings. The number of lawsuits alleging talc caused mesothelioma is a small subset of these cases, with the vast majority involving ovarian cancer claims.
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J&amp;J has sought to resolve the litigation through bankruptcy, a proposal that has been rejected three times by federal courts.
Lawsuits alleging talc caused mesothelioma were not part of the last bankruptcy proposal. The company has previously settled some of those claims but has not struck a nationwide settlement, so many lawsuits over mesothelioma have proceeded to trial in state courts in recent months.
In the past year, J&amp;J has been hit with several substantial verdicts in mesothelioma cases, but Monday&#8217;s is among the largest. The company has won some of the mesothelioma trials, including last week in South Carolina, where a jury found J&amp;J not liable.
The company has been successful in reducing some of the awards on appeal, including in one Oregon case where a state judge granted J&amp;J&#8217;s motion to throw out a $260 million verdict and hold a new trial.
(Reporting by Diana Novak Jones; Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi, Rod Nickel and Bill Berkrot)

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The Supreme Court on Monday <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100625zor_5368.pdf">rejected</a> Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for her part in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse">sentence</a> after being convicted on three counts, including sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor. Despite the setback at the Supreme Court, Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said that “this fight isn’t over,” NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwells-appeal-crim-rcna233281">reported</a>.
In his appeal to the Supreme Court, Markus contended that Jeffrey Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement with the Southern District of Florida — which shielded him and his potential co-conspirators from federal charges — should also apply to one of Ghislaine Maxwell’s three counts prosecuted in New York. The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject the appeal. The Justice Department noted that Alex Acosta, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, would have needed authorization from his superiors for Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement to apply beyond that district. However, there is no evidence that such permission was obtained.
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Solicitor General D. John Sauer said that Maxwell’s argument was “incorrect,” adding that she failed to “show that it would succeed in any court of appeals,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/supreme-court-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-appeal.html#:~:text=In%20a%20response%20to%20Ms,in%20any%20court%20of%20appeals.%E2%80%9D">reported</a>.
Maxwell has been seeking any way to have her prison sentence shortened, including an appeal to President Donald Trump, since her sentencing in June 2022.
Just days after Maxwell petitioned the Supreme Court, she agreed to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-reveals-whether-she-believes-epstein-committed-suicide">interviewed</a> by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who asked the convicted sex trafficker numerous questions about Epstein and his associates. The interview was conducted in July, as the Trump administration continued to face backlash over its handling of the Epstein case. Blanche is a former personal attorney of President Trump.
During her interview with Blanche, Maxwell stated that she had never seen any high-profile Epstein associates, including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, engage in anything “inappropriate.”
“I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way,” she said of Trump. “The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”
Along with the appeal to the Supreme Court, Maxwell’s lawyer also <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/28/trump-ghislaine-maxwell-pardon-jeffrey-epstein-00479862">said</a> that they were asking “the President himself to recognize how profoundly unjust it is to scapegoat Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes.” Trump told reporters in late July that “nobody&#8217;s approached me” about a pardon for Maxwell.
“Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon but nobody&#8217;s approached me with it, nobody&#8217;s asked me about it,” said Trump, adding, “I&#8217;m allowed to do it, but it&#8217;s something I have not thought about.”
One week after sitting down for the interview with the DOJ, Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison in Texas.

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United States District Judge Karin J. Immergut on Sunday expanded her ruling from the day before, blocking the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of California National Guard troops to Oregon.
Immergut called “an emergency hearing Sunday, then broadened her restraining order to cover ‘the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any state or the District of Columbia in the state of Oregon,’” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/trump-national-guard-california-oregon-newsom.html">reported</a>. Meanwhile, the Trump administration still plans to send Texas National Guard troops to Chicago to restore order amid a series of anti-ICE <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-arrests-two-after-attack-on-border-patrol-in-chicago?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=FBI+Arrests+Two+After+Attack+On+Border+Patrol+In+Chicago">attacks</a>.
On Saturday, Immergut <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.56.0_1.pdf">granted</a> the State of Oregon and the City of Portland’s motion for a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump from federalizing the National Guard and sending them to Portland.
On Sunday, Immergut stated that “the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any state,” implied that she wants to forbid Trump from sending out-of-state National Guard troops to Oregon to protect federal agents or property.
One social media user <a href="https://x.com/NapoleonBonabot/status/1975061867220611370">commented</a>, “I want you to realize how crazy this is. She is saying the Federal government has no jurisdiction to protect Federal property. The last time someone tried to argue this was Fort Sumter,” referring to the beginning of the Civil War, when the Confederacy argued that the U.S. federal government had no right to maintain or protect Fort Sumter because South Carolina had lawfully seceded from the Union, and therefore, Fort Sumter (located in Charleston Harbor) now belonged to South Carolina, and by extension, the Confederacy.
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Additionally, there is precedent for the National Guard from one state being deployed to a jurisdiction outside its state. For instance, during the civil rights era riots in 1968, National Guard units from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland were <a href="https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1968NGAAnnualMeeting.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com">sent</a> to Washington, D.C.
On September 27, 2025, President Trump posted a message on his Truth Social account stating that he was directing Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, to provide troops to protect “War ravaged Portland” from “Antifa, and other domestic terrorists” and authorizing “Full Force, if necessary.” On September 28, Hegseth issued a memorandum authorizing the deployment and federalization of 200 of Oregon National Guard service members, over the objection of Oregon’s Democratic governor, Tina Kotek.
Immergut noted in her decision that three reasons could be adduced to support a president “activating” the National Guard to serve on a mission, adding that the reason in Trump’s case could be derived from Title 10 of the United States Code, where the Guard is considered federal military and under the command of the U.S. President.
“Members of the National Guard generally do not receive training to perform local law enforcement tasks, such as learning de-escalation techniques, the use of non-lethal force, or how to properly conduct criminal investigations,” Immergut opined.
After delineating numerous instances of agitation, including protestors lighting fires to barricade a vehicle gate at an ICE facility, rocks and M80 fireworks hurled at Federal Protective Services officers, an assault of a federal officer with a machete and knife, the shining of high-powered flashlights in the eyes of drivers leaving the ICE facility, as well as ICE employees being “doxed” and having their personal information posted online, Immergut defended the plaintiffs instead, writing they “have adequately shown irreparable harm and that the balance of equities and public interest weigh in their favor” from the National Guard being federalized.
“Here, this Court concludes that the President did not have a ‘colorable basis’ to invoke § 12406(3) to federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal law enforcement officers to execute federal law. The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts,” she wrote.
“Defendants also argue that the September 28, 2025 federalization order is authorized under subsection two, which permits federalization of the National Guard in response to ‘a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States,’” Immergut stated. “First, a rebellion must not only be violent but also be armed. Second, a rebellion must be organized. Third, a rebellion must be open and avowed. Fourth, a rebellion must be against the government as a whole — often with an aim of overthrowing the government — rather than in opposition to a single law or issue.”
“The President also stated that ‘protests or acts of violence [that] directly inhibit execution of the laws constitute a form of rebellion. These conceptions of rebellion improperly conflate the statutory preconditions,” she contended. She also argued that sending in the National Guard would inflame the situation, asserting, “state and local law enforcement will need to expend additional resources to quell increased civil unrest that is likely to result from the Guard’s mobilization.”
“The issues at stake in this case are important, and the consequences of this Court’s decision are far-reaching. As soon as the federalized National Guard deploys to Portland, the state of Oregon will suffer an injury to its sovereignty,” Immergut argued.
“This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation,” she concluded.

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U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/nyregion/sdny-unrwa-lawsuit-dismissed.html">dismissed</a> a high-profile lawsuit accusing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) of enabling Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. Filed in New York by about 100 Israeli plaintiffs—including survivors, victims’ families, and a former hostage—the case sought more than $1 billion in damages, alleging UNRWA bolstered Hamas’s terror infrastructure through indirect funding and logistical support.
The central legal issue in the case was whether UNRWA, as part of the United Nations, could be held accountable in U.S. courts. Judge Torres, a 2013 Obama appointee, ruled that UNRWA was immune from litigation under international law, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-judge-dismisses-1b-suit-against-unrwa-though-feds-had-said-it-doesnt-have-immunity/">stating</a>, “Because UNRWA is a subsidiary organ of the United Nations and has not waived its immunity, this court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over Plaintiffs’ claims.”
This ruling directly contradicted the position of the Trump-era Department of Justice, which in April 2025 had submitted a brief rejecting the notion of immunity for UNRWA. That brief asserted that UNRWA had played a “significant role in the heinous offenses” committed by Hamas on October 7, in which approximately 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage. It further argued that neither UNRWA nor its Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini should be protected from suit in U.S. courts.
The Trump DOJ argued that international organizations like UNRWA are not automatically entitled to immunity, stating, “The Constitution does not grant immunity to foreign sovereigns or organizations. Instead, such immunity is a matter of grace and comity.”
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The lawsuit stated that UNRWA was “knowingly providing Hamas with the U.S. dollars in cash that it needed to pay smugglers for weapons, explosives and other terror materiel.” It also stated that UNRWA allegedly aided Hamas by paying staff in U.S. dollars, knowing they would have to exchange them through Hamas-linked money changers, thereby generating a steady income stream for the terror group.
Adding to the controversy, revelations in 2024 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-n-fires-multiple-unrwa-employees-after-discovering-evidence-of-alleged-involvement-in-october-7-attacks">confirmed</a> that nine UNRWA employees were fired after a U.N. internal investigation found they “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack.
Under Biden, the DOJ maintained that UNRWA remained shielded under international law and diplomatic immunity. The Trump DOJ challenged that tradition, seeking accountability for international actors accused of supporting terrorism.
Torres’ ruling undercuts a significant legal effort to hold international organizations accountable for allegedly enabling terror.

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A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to fire hundreds of employees working for the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.279211/gov.uscourts.dcd.279211.164.0.pdf">blocked</a> Acting USAGM CEO Kari Lake’s <a href="https://x.com/KariLake/status/1961600955343843577">plan</a> to lay off 532 employees while litigation over the case proceeds. Most of the employees who were set to be terminated on September 30 worked for Voice of America, a taxpayer-funded international media outlet that Lake has <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kari-lake-hellbent-deporting-her-203835847.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEX4ukzDpdtiRTcSbsAcx9MfDyLp5RiFB12XuaicvET2fHW77F76yEa3Olfr_5d4GWvDTWndlrSd56gDRr6GENKfgXrdd3KOSbYOH5OVyALuaRnvwHSTogFFwqVl4jRx-mRIqWTXaiIwHbhwMKH0W8FZqjDkuWjSUh-K-l2p98py">described</a> as &#8220;rotten to the core&#8221; and &#8220;anti-American.&#8221; 
“The Reduction in Force announced by Defendant Lake on or about August 29, 2025, is SUSPENDED and may NOT be implemented, effectuated, or completed in any way,” Lamberth wrote. 
Lake said that the firings were necessary to &#8220;help reduce the federal bureaucracy, improve agency service, and save the American people more of their hard-earned money.&#8221;
USAGM operates other networks, such as Radio Free Europe and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. 
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Lamberth said that the Trump administration did not defend the firings on their merits.
“Rather than providing a rationale for the [reduction in force] on its merits, the defendants instead offer an array of other reasons not to grant relief. But even a cursory examination of the relevant law and key facts reveal these objections are all bark and no bite,” he wrote. 
The judge stated that a recent Supreme Court ruling, which allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of Department of Education employees, did not apply to this case. He also said that Lake had ignored previous directives from the court. 
“The Court must offer an observation on the concerning disrespect the defendants have shown toward the Court’s orders since the entry of the preliminary injunction. It is the Court’s view that the defendants’ disregard for its earlier orders to produce information would more than support a trial on civil contempt,” he wrote. 
In a statement to the Washington Post, Lake <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/29/voa-usagm-kari-lake-judge/">said</a> that she has “seen a huge ‘disrespect’ from the district courts toward the Executive Branch and the American people who have voted overwhelmingly to support President Donald J. Trump.”
In March, Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/">executive order</a> that directed the USAGM to be “eliminated to the maximum extent possible consistent with federal law.”
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/the-voice-of-radical-america/">has argued</a> that agency-run outlets like Voice of America have become increasingly partisan and pushed radical leftist ideologies. In a fact sheet, the White House pointed to reports on transgender-identifying migrants wanting asylum in the United States and “white privilege.”

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YouTube reportedly agreed to a $24.5 million settlement over a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the suspension of his account in 2021.
The vast majority of YouTube’s settlement will be directed toward funding construction of a new White House ballroom that Trump is building. Court documents say that $22 million will be given to the Trust for the National Mall, which is “dedicated to restoring, preserving, and elevating the National Mall, to support the construction of the White House State Ballroom,” according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/business/youtube-settle-trump-lawsuit">CNN</a>.
The remaining settlement money, $2.5 million, will go toward other plaintiffs on the case, such as the American Conservative Union, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-to-settle-lawsuit-brought-by-trump-808f6823?st=Q98zA5&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
YouTube, owned by Alphabet&#8217;s Google, suspended the president’s account after the events of January 6, 2021, claiming that Trump, then in the final days of his first term, had violated the platform’s rules regarding incitement to violence. YouTube reinstated Trump’s account two years later and is the final big tech company to settle a lawsuit from the president over a slate of social media bans.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, settled a lawsuit with Trump for $25 million in January. Most of Meta’s settlement funds were directed toward Trump’s presidential library to be built in Miami, Florida. X, formerly Twitter before Trump ally Elon Musk took over the platform in 2022, settled a lawsuit with the president in February for $10 million.
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X reinstated Trump’s account in 2022 soon after Musk took over the social media platform. Meta waited longer, reinstating the president’s accounts in February 2023.
All three cases against the big tech platforms were pursued by Trump attorney John Coale. Coale attributed the settlement victories to Trump&#8217;s election to the White House for a second term.
“If he had not been re-elected, we would have been in court for 1,000 years,” Coale said, according to WSJ. “It was his re-election that made the difference.”
Trump has forged ties with Silicon Valley executives over the course of his third run for president and his second term in the White House. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai joined Musk in choice seats to witness Trump’s second inauguration.

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The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against six states on Thursday, following the Justice Department’s accusation that they had failed to comply with federal law by refusing to turn over voter registration records. 
The Justice Department says that the states have not provided the requested documentation to show that they maintain clean and accurate voter rolls. The lawsuits target Michigan, California, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and New York. 
“Clean voter rolls are the foundation of free and fair elections,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every state has a responsibility to ensure that voter registration records are accurate, accessible, and secure — states that don’t fulfill that obligation will see this Department of Justice in court.”
The lawsuits <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1415151/dl?inline">allege</a> that the states have violated provisions of the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act, which give the attorney general the authority to inspect states’ voter rolls. As part of the suit, the Justice Department wants records that would include a voter’s driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. 
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“States are required to safeguard American elections by complying with our federal elections laws,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Clean voter rolls protect American citizens from voting fraud and abuse, and restore their confidence that their states’ elections are conducted properly, with integrity, and in compliance with the law.”
Michigan Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson responded to the suit by stating that state law prohibits her from disclosing personally identifiable information to the federal government.
“States can and must hold the line. Only state and local election officials – not the president, the DOJ, or any other federal agency – have the right to people’s private voter information. The people of Michigan have entrusted this department with their personal data, and I will stand up to this illegal and unconstitutional power grab,” she said. 
The other defendant states have made similar arguments, objecting to the release of their residents’ identifying information.
Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters said that the suit would be “an important step toward restoring confidence in our elections.”
“Voters deserve to know that their states are removing ineligible individuals — including the deceased, criminals, out-of-state movers, and non-citizens — from the rolls,” he said.

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A jury on Tuesday found Ryan Routh guilty of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course last year.
After the verdict was read, Routh <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1970561076249891141">attempted</a> to stab himself in the neck with a pen, prompting law enforcement to restrain and shackle him.
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🚨🚨BREAKING: Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh tries to stab himself in the neck with a pen after guilty verdict read in court.🚨🚨 <a href="https://t.co/bnpYKeerVp">pic.twitter.com/bnpYKeerVp</a>
— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1970568361517158886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Florida jury spent roughly two hours in deliberations after the two-week trial wrapped up earlier Tuesday. Routh represented himself at the close of the trial, giving closing remarks for less than an hour before he was stopped by Judge Eileen Cannon, who previously admonished Routh for moving off topic, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-routh-verdict-trump-assassination-attempt-florida-golf-course-rcna232946">NBC News</a>.
Routh, 59, faced five counts, including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, assault of a federal officer, and multiple firearms offenses. Routh pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The convicted attempted assassin made the decision early on in his trial to forgo the court-appointed attorneys provided to represent him. Routh struggled throughout the trial to make a viable defense of himself or even navigate the court process.
Over the course of the two week trial, prosecutors called on dozens of witnesses and introduced evidence from cell phone data, DNA matches, bullets found in a “sniper’s nest” at the golf course, and other materials to build their case.
&#8220;This was not a publicity stunt,&#8221; Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Browne said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jurors-begin-deliberations-trump-golf-course-assassination-attempt-trial">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The evidence has shown one thing and one thing only — the defendant wanted Donald Trump dead.&#8221;
Routh is not a lawyer, nor does he have any legal training. He asked Cannon in July if he could represent himself after claiming to have irreconcilable differences with the court-appointed attorneys tasked with representing him. Cannon agreed, but told Routh that representing himself in the case is a “bad idea.”
During his closing argument, Routh meandered from the charges against him and the assassination attempt to topics such as the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, Ukraine, the Revolutionary War, broadcaster Edward Murrow, and other issues. He said during his closing that the only charge he could be guilty of is caring “deeply for this country,” according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/trump-ryan-routh-trial-florida.html">The New York Times</a>.

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