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New federal-state environmental pact aims to speed up Texas highway projects

The agreement targets the environmental review process and cuts down the time it takes for new highways to be approved.

The Texas Tribune

The Federal Government Owns Too Much Land. Selling It Helps Rural Communities.

Why Sen. Mike Lee's plan to sell public land doesn't go far enough

Reason

Ninth Circuit: TRO Against President's Federalizing California National Guard Was Likely Improper

The court stays the injunction pending appeal, and in the process concludes the defendants "are likely to succeed on the merits of their appeal."

Reason

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Trump Argues That He Can Take Over a State's National Guard Whenever He Feels Like It

The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.

Reason

Trump's DOJ Argues Decision to Deploy National Guard for LA Protests is 'Unreviewable' for Judges

DOJ attorneys argued that courts cannot deny the president's ability to federally enlist militia to justify deploying the National Guard against protestors in Los Angeles.

Latin Times

Whether or Not Trump Invokes It, the Insurrection Act Is Antiquated and Dangerously Broad

On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.

Reason

The Restraining Order Against Federalizing the California National Guard Highlights Trump's Lawlessness

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the president failed to comply with the statute he cited—and violated the 10th Amendment too.

Reason

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Gavin Newsom Defends Federalism Against Trump's Unilateral National Guard Deployment

In a federal lawsuit, California's governor argues that the president's assertion of control over "the State's militia" is illegal and unconstitutional.

Reason

Trump's memo activating the National Guard doesn't specify LA. It could apply anywhere and preemptively, legal expert says

“No president has ever federalized the National Guard for purposes of responding to potential future civil unrest anywhere in the country.”

Fortune

California Gov. Newsom Dares Border Czar To Arrest Him After Threat Over L.A. Protests: 'Let's Go'

California Governor Gavin Newsom dared border czar Tom Homan to arrest him after he threatened him during the weekend

Latin Times

Mexican President Sheinbaum Reacts To L.A. Unrest, Claims City 'Wouldn't Be What It Is' Without Migrants

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized the recent ICE operations that catalyzed protests in Los Angeles, saying the city "wouldn't be what it is" without migrants

Latin Times

What is a 'sanctuary jurisdiction' and how was the US list of them made?

The U.S. government’s list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” includes hundreds of communities, both red and blue

The Independent UK

DOJ gives up on fighting extremists

State-level officials have been left to fend for themselves in the fight against domestic terrorism

Salon

‘We’re talking about nearly 14M people’: Hakeem Jeffries exposes twisted logic behind GOP’s new Medicaid gutting scheme

Hakeem Jeffries tells it like it is.

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Court Holds Anti-DEI Executive Orders Don't Facially Violate First Amendment

Some short excerpts from Friday's long decision by Judge Timothy Kelly (D.D.C.) in National Urban League v. Trump: After taking… The post Court Holds Anti-DEI Executive Orders Don't Facially Violate First Amendment appeared first on Reason.com.

The Conversation

Trump administration’s attempt to nix the labor rights of thousands of federal workers on ‘national security’ grounds furthers the GOP’s long-held anti-union agenda

As the Trump administration seeks to shrink the federal workforce, slash nonmilitary spending and curb opposition to its policies, it is taking steps beyond the firing and furloughing of thousands of government workers.

The Independent UK

It’s Jeff Bezos vs Elon Musk as Amazon boss gets into the electric car business

New Slate EV is a pick-up that can morph into an SUV – at a fraction of the cost of a Tesla Cybertruck

RideApart

Elon Musk's DOGE Controls Your Public Lands Now

DOGE—the Department of Government Efficiency—controls your public lands now. I wish I was kidding, but on April 17th, supposed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum handed Elon Musk the entirety of America's accumulated public lands. That includes national parks, Bureau of Land Management, and Forestry lands, as well as the…

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Janet Yellen says America would be 'lucky to skirt a recession'

"We’re in a world of tremendous uncertainty,” the former Federal Reserve chair and U.S. Treasury secretary said.

The Independent UK

Storms tore up two of America's most iconic trails. Federal cuts have disrupted repairs

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail that runs through three western states is already challenging

Roll Call

Trump endorses Senate-passed DC budget fix - Roll Call

President Donald Trump is backing the funding fix needed to allow the District of Columbia's government to avoid $1.1 billion in budget cuts.

The Guardian - US

Judge blocks Trump’s move to dismantle consumer protection watchdog – as it happened

President had targeted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for mass terminations. This blog is now closed.

The Independent UK

A federal judge temporarily blocks parts of Trump's anti-DEI executive orders

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at curbing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts among federal contractors and grant recipients

Reason

N.C. Court on Compensation for (Apparently Unauthorized) Forced Vaccination by School

The court concludes that the federal 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act preempts state battery claims, but not state constitutional law claims.

Reason

Did Trump Just Abolish the Department of Education?

While he can't get rid of the department outright, a new executive order attempts the next best thing.

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