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Miami Herald
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Miami Herald
Appellate court sides with Trump over Newsom in dispute over LA Guard deployment
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump likely acted within his authority when he federalized California's National Guard during recent immigration protests in Los Angeles — despite opposition from Gov. Gavin Newsom. The unanimous decision from the three-judge panel keeps a pause on a lower court's temporary restraining order a week before that had directed the federal government to return control of Guard troops to Newsom. The appellate panel found Trump likely satisfied the legal threshold under Section 10 of the U.S. Code, and sided with the administration's argument that local law enforcement had failed to contain violent attacks on federal agents and property. The ruling represents the latest legal setback for Newsom, who warned that the June 8 deployment would inflame tensions and escalate unrest. A lower court had agreed with the governor, finding that the protests did not rise to the level of a rebellion and concluding Trump had exceeded his statutory and constitutional authority. This case marks the most significant judicial review of presidential power to override a governor's control of the National Guard since the Civil Rights era. Judges Eric Miller and Mark Bennett, both Trump appointees, and Jennifer Sung, a Biden appointee, issued the 38-page ruling after hearing arguments Tuesday. The panel emphasized judicial deference to the president's discretion during national emergencies. Still, the court rejected Trump's assertion that his actions were immune from judicial review. While acknowledging the 'extraordinary' nature of the override, the judges concluded it was likely lawful under existing precedent granting the president broad discretion to determine when regular federal forces are insufficient to execute federal law. 'The authority to control the militia remains with the states absent a proper invocation of federal authority under the Constitution or federal statutes,' the panel wrote. The court also criticized the process used to issue the deployment order. Although federal law requires such orders to be issued 'through' a state's governor, the White House transmitted the order via California's adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Matthew P. Beevers. The judges said this method likely met the statutory requirement under California law but noted it 'blurred the lines of command and accountability in a manner inconsistent with both the Constitution and established military structure.' Trump celebrated the ruling online, writing on Truth Social: 'BIG WIN in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the President's core power to call in the National Guard! ... Congratulations to the Ninth Circuit, America is proud of you tonight!' Newsom, however, emphasized the limits of the appellate decision. 'Donald Trump is not a king and not above the law,' he said in a statement on X. 'Tonight, the court rightly rejected Trump's claim that he can do whatever he wants with the National Guard and not have to explain himself to a court.' California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the decision disappointing but vowed to press on. 'The Trump Administration far overreached its authority with its unprecedented and unlawful federalization of the California National Guard,' Bonta said. 'While the court did not provide immediate relief for Angelenos today, we remain confident in our arguments and will continue the fight.' The deployment of 4,000 Guard members — along with 700 Marines from Twentynine Palms — marked the first time since 1965 that a president had federalized a state's National Guard without the governor's consent. The case returns to U.S. Senior District Judge Charles R. Breyer's court in San Francisco on Friday for a preliminary injunction hearing.
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Chicago alderman pledges to fight Mayor Brandon Johnson's vowed curfew veto, won't ‘twist arms'
CHICAGO — As Mayor Brandon Johnson promises to veto the teen curfew ordinance passed by aldermen, the measure's lead sponsor says he will keep fighting to make it law. Alderman Brian Hopkins, 2nd, won out over Johnson in the City Council on Wednesday when his plan to give Chicago's police superintendent power to declare teen curfews anytime, anywhere passed in a 27-22 vote. But his victory could be fleeting. Johnson quickly pledged to cast a rare mayoral veto, the city's first since 2006. The planned move means Hopkins must garner votes from 34 aldermen to overrule the mayor, a high bar that would require him to flip as many as seven council members. Still, Hopkins said Thursday morning he will move ahead in July with a City Council vote on Johnson's anticipated veto. He plans to keep making the case for his ordinance but added that he will not be heavy-handed. 'I'm going to keep pushing back on the deceptive spin, but I'm not going to call my colleagues and twist arms. Everyone is going to vote their conscience on this,' the downtown alderman said. The Wednesday vote and veto pledge marked decisive steps in Hopkins' two-year push to give police more power to curb the so-called 'teen takeover' youth gatherings that have sometimes ended in high-profile violence, including two Streeterville shootings in Hopkins' ward in recent months. Youth activists and civil rights groups have criticized the curfew measure as an unfair and unconstitutional crackdown that especially harms Black and Latino teens from poor neighborhoods that offer little safe fun. They also argue that those same teens have been left out of the debate and that aldermen should instead invest money in youth jobs, violence prevention and safe activities. 'Our children are gathering to escape the violence in their neighborhoods, the trouble at home and other conditions that they have no control over,' said Abierre Minor, a 25-year-old appointed by Johnson last year to the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability. Minor recalled speaking after the vote with her 15-year-old sister, who argued media coverage of 'teen takeovers' has been sensationalized and that all people should have the right to gather as they see fit. The police oversight commissioner said she was 'disheartened' by the City Council majority's decision, but praised Johnson's 'swift and strong' response. 'Every year, our decision-makers propose repressive, ineffective policies to address community violence that does nothing but cause confusion and community harm,' Minor said. 'This year, something different happened. We had a leader who decided to break the cycle.' The Cook County public defender's office and progressive groups have also backed Johnson's stance. Just after the measure passed, Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates urged the mayor, formerly a CTU organizer, to veto it, likening the curfew ordinance to Jim Crow segregation laws. 'The people of Streeterville don't need the police to keep Black youth out of their neighborhood. The people of Chicago need policies and programs that serve and center Black youth,' Davis Gates wrote. Johnson's administration is currently drafting language and plans to officially veto the measure soon. The mayor had long shared tentative criticism of the potential curfew, but ramped up his opposition to the proposal this week. He argued after pledging a veto that the curfew ordinance would harm 'trust within communities' as the city's violent crime rates sharply drop, and compared the measure to crime laws 'that have overwhelmingly led to the criminalization and the incarceration of poor people and particularly people of color.' 'Offering up extended police power, without any check or balance, has not boded well for Black people and brown people in this country,' he said. Hopkins argued Thursday the 'snap curfew' label Johnson and others have used to describe the measure is a misnomer. The measure requires police to give 30 minutes notice onsite before a curfew is implemented. It also requires the superintendent to consult others to declare a curfew, but gives the top cop final say. Superintendent Larry Snelling said in court last week he would not use any power allowing him to declare sudden curfews, but suggested he could use the ordinance to declare preemptive curfews days in advance when police learn of planned, potentially chaotic gatherings. He has carefully distanced himself from the political debate in statements. Johnson has argued he and Snelling are aligned on the matter, but said future superintendents should not have the technical ability to quickly declare curfews with little or no oversight. A final vote ought to move forward in July, without legislative trickery from either side, Hopkins said. 'That'll put the matter to bed, and I'd rather do that briefly than have it degrade into a parliamentary mud fight,' he said. 'I think at this point I am done having persuasive conversations with my colleagues.' Much could happen before a mid-July vote that might pressure aldermen to change sides, he added. He cited, as he did during City Council floor debate Wednesday, reports of a large and chaotic teen gathering at North Avenue Beach earlier this week. Police said they arrested five teens at the beach Tuesday, including three minors, for misdemeanors and citations including battery, resisting arrest and possessing alcohol. ____
CNN
18 hours ago
- Politics
- CNN
How people can show up for the Black community
For Juneteenth, CNN political historian Leah Wright Rigueur and senior political commentator Van Jones discuss the significance of supporting the Black community.
Irish Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Glasnevin Cemetery's Queer History Tour: ‘If you're here for the drama, you'll get it'
At the back of Glasnevin Cemetery , an unmarked grave hosts the remains of Jack Saul, the earliest-born person on the cemetery's new Queer History Tour and the character whose story the tour's guide, Anna Collins, most enjoys telling. 'He lived this crazy, scandalous, almost unimaginable life,' Collins says of Saul, the veteran of two 19th-century scandals. This weekend, Collins will be giving the tour for the first time to coincide with Dublin Pride , and the expectation is that ticket buyers will be as chatty and curious as ever. 'I think if you're interested and passionate, people get swept up in it,' Collins tells me from the boardroom of the cemetery's museum building, which overlooks a vast sweep of headstones and monuments to Dublin's dead. READ MORE Saul was born in 1857, while the most recent death featured on the tour occurred in 1995, and for Collins this breadth of time was part of the appeal of putting together the tour. 'A lot of the time queer history starts around the 1970s, because that's when the liberation movement kicked off properly. It's harder to do, but it was really nice to go back further and capture a sense of what it was like before there was this open civil rights movement.' When so much of the research is recent, it can give 'the impression that this is all new'. When I meet Collins – who uses they/them pronouns – on a rainy day in late May, they still have a few run-throughs to do, but their plan is to start the tour – which will last 90 minutes to two hours – with the story of Thom McGinty, aka the Diceman . The Scottish-born actor and street artist – who acquired his nickname from a games shop, one of many he was hired to promote – became a well-known Dublin figure and part of the fabric of Grafton Street before he died of complications from Aids in 1995. 'He wasn't buried here, but he was cremated here, and then his ashes were scattered where he believed he was conceived in Co Wicklow, which I think gives you a sense of his personality.' Anna Collins will be giving the Queer History Tour for the first time to coincide with Dublin Pride. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Collins (27) is too young to remember the Diceman, but he is one of the Dublin characters who attracts warm and fond reminiscences from visitors, they say. 'He's in people's living memory and it's nice to be able to carry that on.' The tour then moves on to Davy Byrne (1860-1938), who opened his eponymous pub in 1889. Referenced in James Joyce's Ulysses, the pub is thought to have become something of a haven for gay men. 'I'm not going to say he was gay,' says Collins of Byrne, 'even though he's buried with his friend Thomas.' During the walk, Collins also talks about what's not on the tour. 'I want to go into a few reasons why there are fewer contemporary lesbians on the tour and why there are no modern-day explicitly trans people on the tour, and then we're going to take a long walk over into the past,' they say. These were idealistic people. They wanted a country that was founded on equality of sex and equality across class, and I think a lot of the time that gets forgotten — Anna Collins 'My hope is that when we're on that walk, people will look at the headstones and see that the cemetery is huge. I hope they see the vastness of it and it will kind of hit them just how many stories there are, and how what we're getting is just a hint of what existed.' The 'long walk over into the past' is to reach the place where their tour favourite, Saul, aka Dublin Jack, is buried. [ Irish revolutionary Madeleine ffrench-Mullen to be honoured with plaque at childhood home Opens in new window ] Born into a working-class family in the Liberties, Saul 'spent a lot of time hanging around the Monto', Dublin's red-light district, before his own sex work saw him catapulted into upper-class circles in first Dublin and later London. A life of high-end parties, erotic literature and notoriety followed, with Saul linked to scandals in both cities. At the end of an extraordinary life interacting with establishment figures and brothel-frequenting aristocrats, he died in Dublin in 1904 of tuberculosis, 'a really common illness at the time'. The tragedy of the earlier stories, such as Saul's, is that we typically only know about them from reports of legal cases and commotions. 'It's kind of heartbreaking that this is how a lot of queer research happens – that it comes through scandal, through court cases, through really low moments in people's lives,' Collins says. 'A lot of the time, especially if you're more working class, you're not keeping diaries, you're not writing this down. And if you are, those diaries are probably getting lost – or as happens in some cases later on, the descendants burn any evidence. Even in more recent times, if you're talking about the Aids crisis, people's partners were prevented from coming to their funerals, and there was a lot of cover-up, a lot of tragedy.' Still, even if it means looking 'between the lines', they try to find joy and moments of levity in the lives of the people who feature on the tour. Collins, who is from Leitrim and first started working as a tour guide in Berlin, identifies as queer and likes the way this word 'acknowledges a nuance and a fluidity that exists within these things'. They have been working as a tour guide at Dublin Cemeteries Trust since January 2024 and also give Glasnevin's Irish History Tour and Women in History Tour. The Queer History Tour was an initiative they were keen to pursue, with the existence of a similar tour at Kilmainham Gaol – which is sold out this Saturday – one of the catalysts for its introduction. 'We were kind of like, if Kilmainham is doing it, then surely we can do it.' Tour-guiding can make a difference, Collins believes. 'I think people's minds are changed and their worldviews are shaped when they engage with history.' Still, they are conscious of the potential backlash from people 'who think that queerness is new' or who might be resistant to the idea of Irish republican figures being gay. Anna Collins, tour guide at Dublin Cemeteries Trust, stands in Glasnevin Cemetery's republican plot beside the grave of Elizabeth O'Farrell and Julia Grenan, who feature in the Queer History Tour. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill The tour wends its way over to the republican plot, where Collins poses for photographs beside the grave of Elizabeth O'Farrell , the nurse and Cumann na mBan member who delivered news of the republicans' surrender in the 1916 Rising. She is interred alongside her 'lifelong friend' Julia Grenan , also known as Sheila. The pair are now understood to have been a lesbian couple, as were fellow revolutionaries Kathleen Lynn and Madeleine ffrench-Mullen , and Margaret Skinnider and Nora O'Keeffe, with Collins citing the influential research of historian Mary McAuliffe . Both ffrench-Mullen and Skinnider – the only female combatant wounded in 1916 – feature on the Glasnevin tour. Collins notes that the latter died in 1971, just two years before the Sexual Liberation Movement was founded at Trinity College Dublin. 'These were idealistic people. They wanted a country that was founded on equality of sex and equality across class, and I think a lot of the time that gets forgotten,' they say. [ Remembering The Diceman: gay icon, national treasure and obstacle on the way to work Opens in new window ] 'What I particularly enjoy about the republican plot is that you get to talk about the women as they lived, which was together. The nature of the cemetery is that you often talk about people as if they just existed as individuals, but when you're in the republican plot, you get to talk about how they met and the ideas they shared, and you really get a picture of them as this network of friends.' As we discuss how these women led radical lives in dark, constrictive times, the sun shines through the drizzle and the view – stretching over to the National Botanic Gardens and the dome of Corpus Christi church in Drumcondra – is suddenly more verdant than grey. 'I love the cemetery in the rain, personally,' says Collins. 'Like if you're here for the drama, you'll get it.' Tickets to Glasnevin Cemetery's Queer History Tour, which runs from June 20th to 22nd, can be purchased from the Dublin Cemeteries Trust website .
Fox News
a day ago
- General
- Fox News
The Quiz #441
Celebrate Juneteenth with The Quiz! Play. Share. Listen with FOX News contributor and niece of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Dr. Alveda King.
