11 entries in the ledger
U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a preliminary injunction, dated Oct. 23 and made public Oct. 30, barring agents from detaining people in Los Angeles and six surrounding counties based solely on...
A divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on October 23, 2026, that President Trump's June 2025 deployment of roughly 4,000 California National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area was an...
At an Oct. 5 rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, Trump said, "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego," while arguing that the economic cost of the Iran war, including high gas prices, was "a small price...
U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong held the Department of Homeland Security in civil contempt on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, in the litigation over the 2025 Los Angeles immigration sweeps known as Operation At...
On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the administration's application in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, staying a district court order that had restricted immigration stops in the Los Angeles area. The July 11 order...
On September 2, 2025, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the administration's use of federalized National Guard soldiers and Marines in Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which bars the...
On July 11, 2025, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order barring federal immigration agents across seven Southern California counties from detaining anyone without reasonable...
On June 12, 2025, Sen. Alex Padilla of California was pushed out of a Los Angeles press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, forced to the ground in a hallway and handcuffed by federal agents...
On June 9, 2025, U.S. Northern Command announced that roughly 700 Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, based at Twentynine Palms, California, were deploying to Los Angeles. They were folded into Task...
On June 7, 2025, Trump signed a presidential memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. 12406 to place up to 2,000 California National Guard members into federal service for 60 days, to protect federal personnel and property in Los...