More: According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members.

"I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"

From the article: Governors from six US states have sent troops to Washington to help Trump's effort, swelling the ranks to nearly 2,100 who will soon be on patrol.

According to previous reporting, National Guard deployments cost the US government $530 per guard member each day. Using that figure, Homestead estimated that it would cost just over $1.1 million.

She added that "the number of troops will likely continue to grow. And with no deadline for the DC deployment, those costs could add up for months or even years."

According to the most recent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are about 5,600 people experiencing either sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in DC on a given night. Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.

Providing affordable housing to every homeless person in DC would cost an estimated $255,166, which is 4.3 times less than the cost of Trump's military deployment.

3 years is a long time.

Three years may just be the prelude.

And to whom does Trump have to justify anything currently?

#4,

Assuming troops will be sent home before Trump leaves office one way or the other is probably wishful thinking.

If this follows the playbook the administration seems to want to follow concentration camps will prevent them from coming back.

Also worth pointing out this guy wasn't elected but appointed by the state auditor after Republicans passed a law allowing themselves to force Republican majorities onto local elections boards.

Another republican trying to manufacture a controversy? Or just a guy trying to molest his own granddaughters?

Brings a new meaning to the term mass shooting.

Gives me a little hope to see normal Americans not playing along with the administration's power grab BS.

More: The grand jury's rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent. It also amounted to a sharp rebuke by a panel of ordinary citizens against the prosecutors assigned to bring charges against people arrested after President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to fight crime and patrol the city's streets.

The rejection by grand jurors was particularly noteworthy given the attention paid to the case of the man who threw the sandwich, Sean C. Dunn. Video of the episode went viral on social media, senior officials talked about the case, and the administration posted footage of a large group of heavily armed law enforcement officers going to Mr. Dunn's apartment.

It remained unclear if prosecutors planned to try again to obtain an indictment against Mr. Dunn, 37, a former Justice Department paralegal. They could also forgo seeking felony charges and refile his case as a misdemeanor, which does not require an indictment to move forward.

He'd have to move. Governor Stein would never send NC guardsmen to help Trump attack Americans.

Shows you the level of respect the administration has for service members. Taking them away from their real jobs and their families to make them pick up trash in DC.

The California prop will be put on the ballot and voted on by the people.

The Utah maps were not.

This what they voted for. When they miss the next emergency broadcast alert it'll be their own fault.

More: Trump's attempt to remove a sitting Fed governor is unprecedented " and almost certainly illegal, according to legal scholars. Governors are appointed to 14-year terms and can only be fired "for cause," such as misconduct or failure to perform official duties. Personal financial claims " especially from before the appointment " don't meet that bar.

"This is a procedurally invalid removal under the statute," said Columbia law professor Lev Menand. "This is not someone convicted of a crime. This is not someone who is not carrying out their duties."

Cook, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, is the first Black woman to serve on the Fed's Board of Governors. She's now fighting back with a legal team led by high-powered attorney Abbe Lowell.

"His reflex to bully is flawed and his demands lack any proper process, basis or legal authority," Lowell said of Trump. "We will take whatever actions are needed to prevent his attempted illegal action."

More: "Proposition 4 is the law in Utah on redistricting. H.B. 2004, the 2021 Congressional Map, which was not enacted under S.B. 200 and not Proposition 4, cannot lawfully govern future elections in Utah," Gibson wrote. "Use of H.B. 2004, the 2021 Congressional Map, in any future elections is hereby ENJOINED."

The ruling permanently blocks use of the GOP-drawn 2021 congressional map that split Salt Lake County into four districts, diluting the power of non-Republican voters.

"The Legislature intentionally stripped away all of Proposition 4's core redistricting standards and procedures that were mandatory and binding on it," Gibson added. "To permit the 2021 Congressional Plan to remain in place would reward the very constitutional violation this Court has already identified and would nullify the people's 2018 redistricting reform."

The court ordered lawmakers to redraw Utah's congressional districts under the rules of Proposition 4. They have until September 24 to deliver a compliant plan.

If they fail " or if the new map doesn't meet the law's standards " plaintiffs and other groups may submit their own maps for the court to consider.

More: Grand juries decline to indict, known as a "no true bill," in only a small fraction of federal cases. To secure an indictment prosecutors need only show probable cause a crime was committed. That's much lower than the standard in criminal trials. A grand jury declining to indict three times on the same case is a warning the evidence may not stand up at trial, according to attorney Christopher Macchiaroli, a partner at Silverman Thompson Slutkin White who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the federal prosecutor's office in D.C.

"Seeking an indictment for a third time is extremely rare and usually only reserved for the most serious of crimes," Macchiaroli said. "If a governmental entity cannot convince a super majority of grand jurors that there is a fair probability that a crime was committed, it is virtually impossible to believe that twelve jurors in the same relevant jurisdiction could unanimously at a future date find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the highest standard of proof under the law."

Reid was arrested in July for allegedly resisting attempts to restrain her after she refused to back away from ICE officers who were conducting arrests outside the D.C. Jail. In the process, they said, an FBI agent received scrapes to the back of her hand.

Becoming? America, built on slavery and the genocide of Native Americans, has always been amoral.

We made some progress in the latter half of the last century but we're backsliding.

No wonder you never did anything with your life other than cruise bath houses looking for dope money.
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Every accusation is a confession.

No one fears -----.
#24 | Posted by boaz

No one fears their what? Purchasing power? Decorating ability? Fashion sense? Tight grip on the zeitgeist? Deep penetration of American culture? Throbbing, pulsating dance music?

Yeah, let us know how well that works out.

I dont think

#1 | Posted by boaz

We know.

Conservatives are a problem in every religion. Is this obvious fact supposed to be considered new or shocking?

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

More: Instead of spending about 18 weeks training at the academy in Quantico, Va., the group of agents, tentatively scheduled to start in October, will receive eight weeks, according to the people. And the agents will no longer need to fulfill a longstanding requisite for joining the bureau: a bachelor's degree.

Lowering recruiting standards will allow the F.B.I. to draw deeper from the ranks of other federal law enforcement agencies, specifically a category of criminal investigators classified in the federal system as 1811s. Investigators with that designation work at dozens of agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, inspector general offices and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The new plan, current and former agents say, seems to be part of a larger effort by Mr. Patel to have the bureau focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security. Doing so, they added, will erode the bureau's reputation as an elite law enforcement agency, known for its selectiveness about its recruits.