Legal Battles Over National Guard Deployments

OA1182 - DC is under full federal occupation. California is putting the Trump administration’s unprecedented deployment of the National Guard to support federal immigration enforcement on trial. And a major challenge to a critical provision of the Voting Rights Act is on the line in front of the Supreme Court. It’s Rapid Response Friday, and we’re here for all of it.

Finally, Matt breaks down THE BIG FREEZE--a new collective approach to stopping the rapid coming expansion of ICE which every decent person can do something to be a part of. Nothing is inevitable, and none of us are alone.

• DC Home Rule Act (President’s emergency authority over Metropolitan Police at p.85)

• Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia – The White House

• Complaint in Newsom v. Trump (6/9/25)

• “THE AMERICAN GESTAPO IS HERE (and there is only one way that we can stop them now),” Matt Cameron, DEPORTNATION (8/15/25)

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