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In at the moment’s version, we break down our newest reporting on the fallout from a weekend of tense immigration protests in Los Angeles. Plus, Ben Kamisar digs into Republicans’ opening line of assault within the essential Georgia Senate race.
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— Adam Wollner
Trump sparks showdown with California Democrats over immigration protests
Tensions continued to escalate at the moment between President Donald Trump’s administration and California’s Democratic leaders over the protests that erupted over the weekend in response to a sequence of ICE raids in Los Angeles.
Right here’s the most recent:
Marines mobilized: About 700 Marines have been mobilized to help the Nationwide Guard in defending federal personnel and property in Los Angeles, in accordance with two Protection Division officers. The mobilization is non permanent till extra California Nationwide Guard troops arrive, the sources mentioned.
Heading to courtroom: California Legal professional Normal Rob Bonta said he is suing the Trump administration for deploying 2,000 members of the Nationwide Guard to Los Angeles, calling it an “infringement” on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s authority.
Bonta famous that Trump’s transfer was the primary time the guard had been activated with no governor’s consent since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson deployed troops in Alabama to guard civil rights demonstrators. (Right here’s a quick history of earlier presidents’ federalizing the Nationwide Guard.)
“We did the appropriate factor,” Trump informed reporters Monday, including the “place can be burning down” in the event that they hadn’t.
Arrest threats: On Saturday, Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, threatened arrest for anybody who obstructs the immigration enforcement effort, together with Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — although he acknowledged that neither had but “crossed the road.”
In an interview for MSNBC with NBC News’ Jacob Soboroff, Newsom referred to as Homan’s bluff, urging him to “simply get it over with.”
“He’s a troublesome man. Why doesn’t he do this? He is aware of the place to seek out me,” Newsom mentioned. “That form of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.”
Bass mentioned Trump “didn’t inherit a disaster — he created one.”
Trump doubled down on Homan’s warning Sunday, saying that “officers who stand in the best way of regulation and order” will “face judges.” He then informed reporters at the moment that “I’d do it if I had been Tom.”
However two White Home officers informed NBC Information that, as of now, federal officers and Trump should not significantly wanting into plans to arrest Newsom or Bass.
Protest fallout: At the very least 56 folks were arrested this weekend as protesters had been ordered to go away downtown Los Angeles and regulation enforcement shot “less-lethal” rounds. Demonstrators spilled out onto the 101 Freeway, whereas others set hearth to Waymo driverless vehicles. Extra protests were planned at the moment.
On Reality Social, Trump called the protestors “insurrectionists,” including: “IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT.”
Republicans deal with trans athletes of their early assaults in opposition to Jon Ossoff in Georgia
By Ben Kamisar
Republicans searching for to unseat Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., in one of many key races of the 2026 midterm elections are already leaning closely into assaults over transgender athletes in girls’s sports activities.
In latest weeks, two GOP-aligned outdoors teams have launched adverts concerning the challenge. And GOP Rep. Buddy Carter hit the airwaves with an advert prodding Ossoff on the problem quickly after he launched his marketing campaign.
Republicans have incessantly leaned on tradition conflict points in recent times to excite the bottom and body Democrats as out of contact, significantly in red-leaning states. And so they’re much more emboldened after Donald Trump bombarded Vice President Kamala Harris with an onslaught of ads that attacked her help for transgender folks in the course of the 2024 election.
However whereas Democrats are gearing up for a tough re-election struggle for Ossoff in a state Trump gained narrowly final 12 months, they suppose the problem can be drowned out by voters’ considerations about Trump’s dealing with of the financial system. Even so, it’s a difficulty for which Democrats lack a consensus about how to answer GOP broadsides, as outstanding members of the social gathering grapple with whether or not to embrace defending the transgender neighborhood as a part of their values, deflect the query or come out against permitting transgender athletes in girls’s sports activities.
Ossoff is the one Democrat defending a seat in a state Trump gained final 12 months, making him far and away the highest goal for Senate Republicans. Nonetheless, some Republicans admit he can be tough to beat, significantly now that Gov. Brian Kemp has determined to not search the seat.
The early Republican criticism of Ossoff factors to his vote on laws in February that might have made it a Title IX violation (jeopardizing federal schooling funding) for states to permit transgender girls and ladies to take part in feminine sports activities. The invoice failed to get the 60 votes it wanted to advance within the Senate.
🗞️ Immediately’s different high tales
- 💉 Sea change: Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the 17 members of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s impartial vaccine advisory committee from their posts. Read more →
- 🚢 Commerce talks: Senior U.S. and Chinese language officers met in London to attempt to de-escalate the bitter commerce dispute between the world’s two greatest economies. Read more →
- 🪖 Hiring woes: The White Home is struggling to discover a new chief of workers and several other senior advisers to help Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth after a sequence of missteps which have shaken confidence in his management. Read more →
- 💰 Musk’s cash: Trump mentioned there can be “serious consequences” if Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run in opposition to Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping home coverage invoice. In the meantime, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., mentioned he would not accept campaign donations from Musk.
- 🔵 All politics is nationwide: Voters within the New Jersey Democratic major for governor say they wish to help a candidate who will forcefully push again in opposition to Trump. Read more →
- 🗳️ 2026 watch: Ryan Crosswell, a former federal prosecutor who resigned due to the Justice Division’s choice to drop corruption costs in opposition to New York Mayor Eric Adams, is working as a Democrat for a aggressive Home seat in Pennsylvania. Read more →
- ⚖️ Bar struggle: Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi’s brother misplaced his bid for president of the D.C. Bar, incomes 3,490 votes to opponent Diane Seltzer’s 34,982. Read more →
- 📊 Information dive: The 2024 presidential election was the primary in twenty years that resulted in a Republican widespread vote victory. The developments since 2004 illustrate excessive adjustments within the two events. Read more →
That’s all From the Politics Desk for now. Immediately’s e-newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Dylan Ebs.
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