Fox News Politics Newsletter: Trump vs Newsom showdown

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-Female military recruits surge across all service branches

-Climate group scrubs judges’ names from website after unearthed chats unmasked cozy ties

-DC paid protester requests surge 400% amid Trump’s federal takeover of city police: crowd company

Trump vs Newsom showdown lands in court with family ties to the nation’s highest bench

The federal government argued before a California judge — the brother of a retired Supreme Court justice — that President Donald Trump acted within his legal authority by deploying the National Guard and Marines to quell immigration riots in Los Angeles earlier this year.

Judge Charles Breyer – sibling of President Bill Clinton-appointed Justice Stephen Breyer – heard testimony in the case brought by the Newsom administration over whether the federal government violated federal law in its use of the military on domestic soil and/or the 10th Amendment.

The case is expected to test the limits of a president’s power as commander in chief, as the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act — born out of Reconstruction — requires either an act of Congress or constitutional authorization to use the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement…READ MORE.

L-R: California Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

White House

NUMBERS IN DOUBT: Trump’s pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns

Members of the U.S. National Guard are deployed around downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following an immigration raid protest the night before. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer) (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

BOOTS ON STANDBY: Pentagon drawing up quick reaction force of National Guard ready to quell civil unrest at any moment: report

DOGE VICTORY: DOGE lands big legal win as appeals court strikes down preliminary injunction

‘UNFORTUNATE’: White House criticizes judge’s decision not to unseal Epstein associate grand jury testimony

Signs and a Palestinian flag sit on a statue of George Washington at an encampment protest at the University Yard at George Washington University April 25, 2024 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

CAMPUS CRACKDOWN: Trump admin rips George Washington University in DC as ‘deliberately indifferent’ to antisemitism

MONEY PIT: Trump blasts ‘Too Late’ Powell again, threatens lawsuit over Fed’s $3B HQ renovations

‘AWFUL LOT WRONG’: Unearthed emails reveal how White House nixed Biden visiting ship because of ‘how many steps were involved’
 

L – Pricing National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) at the Philadelphia shipyard R – President Joe Biden (Getty)

World Stage

DICTATOR’S REIGN: Venezuela human rights hit new low as US puts $50M bounty on Maduro’s head: State Department

NEW FINDINGS: State Department report condemns South Africa over ‘extrajudicial killings’ in annual Human Rights report

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores parade in a military vehicle during celebrations for Independence Day, in Caracas on July 5, 2025.  (JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images)

Capitol Hill

‘STUPID BEHAVIOR’: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene explains why she’s ‘extremely frustrated’ with DC lawmakers

TIDE TURNS: Senate Democrats show shift on Israel as Sanders-backed arms blockade gains traction
 

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on April 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)

Across America 

RED STATE REBELLION: Bernie Sanders brings ‘Fighting Oligarchy Tour’ to Trump strongholds across deep-red West Virginia

FLORIDA’S ‘CHUCK NORRIS’: DeSantis picks ‘the Chuck Norris of Florida politics’ as new top deputy

Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general, during the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024.  (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

PARTISAN PLAYBOOK: Dems suggest GOP redistricting has forced them to play partisan politics, Republicans argue nothing’s changed

RUNAWAY REBELLION: Texas Republicans seek to ‘domesticate’ rogue Dems for breaking quorum

‘VERY CONCERNED’: Minneapolis Democratic socialist Omar Fateh vows to protect ‘undocumented’ residents from Trump

Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Omar Fateh is seen in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 19, 2025 (Omar Fateh campaign)

LIVING ‘RENT-FREE’: Mamdani zings Cuomo in rent-stabilized housing spat during anti-Trump tour stop

‘WORST OF THE WORST’: ICE Houston arrests more than 350 gang members — and it’s not just MS-13

DC VIOLENCE: Man in DC shot and killed hours after Trump federalizes city’s police department

Police respond to the scene of a shooting on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood. (WTTG)

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