Closing summary
This ends our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, and its impact on the nation, but we will be back on Friday. In the meantime, here are the day’s major developments:
A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump acted illegally when he commandeered the California national guard and ordered thousands of troops to Los Angeles amid protests over immigration raids. The troops return to the control of California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, at noon on Friday.
Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, was roughly ejected from a news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed when he tried to ask the homeland security secretary Kristi Noem a question – why she was focusing her remarks on a handful of people charged with violent crimes , when immigration raids have targeted undocumented immigrants with no criminal record.
Video of Padilla’s interruption of Noem appeared to show that her claim that the senator had been lunging at her when he was stopped was untrue. Padilla later called that charge a “ridiculous” lie.
“We are not involved in strikes against Iran,” the US secretary of state Marco Rubio said in a statement. “Let me be clear: Iran should not target US interests or personnel.”
The San Francisco judge who ruled against Trump, Charles Breyer, is the brother of the former supreme court justice Stephen Breyer, which could well form a key part of the president’s appeal in the court of social media.
The House narrowly voted to pass a package of cuts to federal funding previously appropriated by Congress, including spending on disease prevention overseas, and the 0.01% of the federal budget that supports public broadcasting by NPR and PBS.
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At his news conference in the wake of a ruling in his favor in Newsom v Trump, returning his control over California’s National Guard, Gavin Newsom laughed at Trump’s social media post that seemed to criticize his own administration’s immigration raids on farms.
“This is what he does: he creates a problem, and then he tries to be a hero in his own Marvel movie”, Newsom said. “He initiated those raids. He significantly increased the scale and scope of those raids. That’s why he wants the National Guard.”
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