Tennessee national guard trained guns on dying man after guard member shot him, video shows

Footage from prosecutors shows aftermath of shooting of Tyrin Johnson, 20, shot and killed by national guard in July…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/02/tennessee-shooting-tyrin-johnson-video

 

Tennessee national guard fatally shot armed man in back, autopsy shows

Tennessee national guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime taskforce in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press, contradicting police accounts that said the man was facing the troops when they fired...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/tyrin-johnson-national-guard-shooting

 

Trump threatens $5bn lawsuit over liberal national guard policy report

“Based on analysis of crime data, our report demonstrated facts about the National Guard deployments that are inconvenient to the Trump administration,” wrote Neera Tanden, Cap’s president and CEO. “This threatened lawsuit’s attack on facts and evidence is baseless. A fundamental protection of the First Amendment is to allow for the publication of facts and analysis that are contrary to the arguments and claims of any administration. A lawsuit is a transparent attempt to silence us. We will neither cower nor bend in the face of it.”…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/trump-lawsuit-threat-national-guard-deployment-report

1 year in, National Guard troops have became part of D.C. life : NPR

"I worry about these troops standing on street corners fading into the background, and people starting to accept this as just a fact of life," says Joseph Nunn, counsel at the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security program. "Armed military personnel standing on the street corners in an American city should never be normal."…

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/11/nx-s1-5927230/national-guard-dc-anniversary-trump 

 

Center for American Progress defends National Guard research against Trump’s lawsuit threat - POLITICO

The Center for American Progress stood behind a recent report that the Trump administration’s National Guard deployments failed to reduce violent crime, after the president threatened to sue the liberal think tank. 

 In a statement released Tuesday, the organization accused President Donald Trump of “lashing out” in an attempt to “silence independent research, waste taxpayer money on his failed agenda, and distract from the reality that his policies are hurting the American people.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/11/center-for-american-progress-trump-lawsuit-01033086

 

Michigan threatens to pull troops from D.C. if used for Trump task force : NPR

Michigan Gov. Whitmer is one of four Democrats who sent their states' National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. ahead of America 250 celebrations in recent weeks, amid President Trump's ongoing — and controversial — deployment in the city...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/06/29/nx-s1-5875427/michigan-governor-national-guard-dc

 

At least seven people killed in Chicago shootings as Trump renews military call

Mayor says ‘violence has no place in our city’ as president criticizes governor for not accepting national guard troops…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/21/chicago-shootings-trump

 

SHOCKING! National Guards JOIN Protesters in Minnesota to PROTEST Against ICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9cfkNaXMWM

Trump ends National Guard deployment in 3 cities after Supreme Court loss - POLITICO

The president said troops will no longer be in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/donald-trump-national-guard-deployment-00708714 

 

Grand Jury Manipulation (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

Lawyers for former CIA Chief John Brennan have written to the Chief Judge in the Southern District of Florida accusing the Justice Department of forum shopping.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Trump does not have the authority to deploy the National Guard under title 10 USC section 12406.

The Justice Department issues a memo asking assistant US Attorneys to work through the holidays to redact the Epstein files as they claim to have found a million new documents.

The White House has taken over the Justice Department communications on social media.

Plus listener questions…
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-kgz7h-29e08bc6

Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois - POLITICO

And while the latest decision is not a final one on the legal issues at stake in the National Guard deployments, it is a significant setback for the president in a battle with Democratic leaders who have taken legal action to resist his efforts to advance his immigration agenda by putting federalized troops on the streets in several major cities...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/supreme-court-national-guard-ruling-00704962

 

National guard shooting suspect spent ‘weeks on end’ in isolation, emails show

The emails reveal mounting warnings about Lakanwal, whose erratic conduct raised alarms long before last week's attack. His behavior deteriorated so sharply that a community advocate reached out to a refugee organization for help, fearing he was becoming suicidal...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/national-guard-shooting-suspect-mental-health

 

Donald Still Can’t Answer a Simple Question #PaulaPoundstone #DonaldTrump

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tCYaiSGXfTI

 

Counterterrorism officials vetted D.C. ambush suspect before he entered U.S. - The Washington Post

Individuals with knowledge of the process that Rahmanullah Lakanwal went through contradicted senior Trump officials' claim that he was not scrutinized.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/28/dc-shooting-afghan-resettlement-immigration/

 

Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting

In a social media post beginning with "a very happy Thanksgiving," sent after 11pm on Thursday, the US president said his administration would "end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens" and remove "anyone who is not a net asset to the United States". 

It as not clear how the president would enact such a "pause" in migration. Previous bans issued by his administration have faced challenges in the courts and in Congress...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/trump-says-he-will-permanently-pause-migration-from-third-world-countries-after-national-guard-shooting 

DC National Guard Shooting Update, 12PM ET Thanksgiving Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNmk_njA1l8

How Trump's Immigration Forces Misuse “Less Lethal” Weapons — ProPublica

Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents' use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe...

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons 

 

Two National Guard troops critically wounded in shooting near White House - POLITICO

A suspect has been detained, according to local police...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/26/national-guard-shooting-washington-white-house-00670196 

 

Judge rules Trump’s DC National Guard deployment was illegal - POLITICO

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb said that while Trump may be the commander in chief of the Guard, his power is constrained by federal laws that limit how those troops can be federalized and deployed, particularly in Washington, D.C., which is controlled by Congress...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/20/national-guard-washington-dc-00663137 

 

Over Signal, these National Guard members question Trump's deployments : NPR

"I have been on two humanitarian-esque missions with the guard, which were awesome, doing the things you see on the commercial, helping these communities," says J. "And then you want me to go pick up trash and dissuade homeless people in D.C. at gunpoint. Like, no dude. It's so disheartening every time I see another city — and I just wonder, 'who's going to stand up to this?'"…

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5601819/national-guard-signal-trump-deployments