17 entries in the ledger
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...
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote to Sen. Elissa Slotkin that "the Joint Force has no plans to send Federal military personnel or Federalized members of the National Guard to polling places...
A confidential Department of Homeland Security memo dated April 2025, obtained by American Oversight under the Freedom of Information Act and reported Aug. 28, 2026 by NOTUS, set out a legal rationale for using National...
An autopsy released by Tyrin Johnson's family on Aug. 27 says a single bullet entered the right side of the 20-year-old's back and exited his upper right chest on a slightly upward path. Tennessee National Guard members...
The Louisiana National Guard is ending the deployment that has put troops on New Orleans streets since late December, with the last 120 troops finishing their final patrol on Aug. 24 and the mission concluding Aug. 31...
President Trump's personal attorney Alejandro Brito sent the Center for American Progress a nine-page letter, reviewed by The Hill, demanding the think tank retract a report on Trump's National Guard deployments...
Budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren's office and reported on Aug. 4, 2026 put the cost of keeping National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., from October 2026 through Inauguration Day 2029 at an additional...
The National Guard Bureau, the District of Columbia National Guard and the General Services Administration awarded the apartment-hotel company Placemakr $292 million on July 24, 2026 to provide up to 2,000...
On October 18, 2025, demonstrations under the banner "No Kings" were held at more than 2,700 locations in all 50 states and at sites abroad including London, Paris and Rome. Organizers, a coalition of roughly 200 groups...
On October 9, 2025, U.S. District Judge April Perry issued a 14-day temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of about 500 National Guard troops, drawn from Texas and California, to the Chicago area. Texas...