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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 8h

Last I checked: Ingrassia was a 29-year-old former law firm staffer who had never passed the bar.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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POLITICO
By DANIEL LIPPMAN
10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 8h

Just re-reading Heather's incredible thread from this afternoon's hearing in Illinois vs. Trump. At least twice, the DOJ attorneys demand that the court "defer" to the president's decision-making in deploying the National Guard.

Truly unprecedented stuff with huge implications for executive power.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13h

Perry is back on the bench.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13h

As we wait for Judge April Perry to rule, here's my full story from this morning's extraordinary hearing, for @wttw.bsky.social:

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 11h

Just want to point out something important from today's hearings in Oregon in Illinois: In both cases, Justice Department lawyers argued on behalf of Trump that no one — cities, states, courts — should be able to question his legal rationale for deploying troops wherever he likes.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 12h

Cc @djbyrnes1.bsky.social

Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe that, as it currently stands, govt cant lean on the third prong of Sec 12406 because local law enforcement can handle the situation.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

Please be kind when journalists forget to include a link or misspell a word or name. There is a lot going on right now, everyone is exhausted, and many independent reporters and freelancers are doing this for free or very little money.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16h

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 17h

Full-on SCOTUS audition today by Nelson: do you admit that it was "ill advised" by the city of Portland to order the boards be taken off the ICE building?

His whole thesis is: we don't know what Trump is seeing behind the scenes, so how could we possibly question his judgment in sending in troops?

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

It is completely not

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Hearing over. Doesn’t look good. I’m guessing 2-1 decision in favor of deployment.

Illinois looks more likely to block.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

No, three judge panel. My guess is 2-1 in favor of deployment.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Judge Nelson in Oregon is making a similar argument regarding the third prong of Sec. 12406: of the President says he can’t enforce the laws and therefore must send in the Guard, we have to believe him.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 17h

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Oh it’s bad for sure

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Nelson brings up the zoning violation issued to ICE for boarding up windows. “Do you think that was ill-advised?”

Hmm, that’s an interesting question — and one that has nothing to do with this case.

Unless you’ve already decided to support Trump’s deployment, which Nelson clearly has.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Nelso argued that there could be things happening “behind-the-scenes” that justify Trump’s National Guard deployment.

This is, frankly, an insane argument. “We can’t tell you why we need to send in the troops you just have to believe us.”

Nelson appears willing to believe it.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Nelson: The president gets to direct his resources as he sees fit, and it just seems a little counter-intuitive to me that the City of Portland can come in and say, “no, you need to do it differently.”

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Nelson is teeing up an argument that those forces helped tamp down on protests — apparently thinking that the Guard will do the same.

Not a legal term but I think that’s what one would call “wishful thinking.”

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Chaffin going day-by-day through the month of September to note how low-key protests have been.

Nelson says this could be because up to 115 Federal Protective Service officers were deployed to Portland.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Nelson bringing up a drone being used, someone who got violent and spit on agents.

“That’s criminal activity and he was arrested,” Chaffin says.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Nelson and OR AG’s Stacy Chaffin are going a bit back and forth about incidents at the Portland ICE facility.

Chaffin says the worst events include displaying a guillotine, shining flashlights in drivers’ eyes.

Nelson says he thought there was more than that.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Nelson: “the statute says ‘the president can’t execute the laws.’ That’s internal decision-making.”

Setting it up so that, essentially, the president can’t simply just *say* he can’t enforce the law and so the Guard has to be deployed.

More executive power!

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

OR AG says it’s simply “not true” that Trump can’t enforce the law, and therefore must federalize the National Guard.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Judge Nelson says it’s difficult for a district court to have to determine whether or not the president can execute the laws — the third prong of Sec. 12406.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17h

So far this sounds very much like a 2–1 panel decision in favor of Trump having the right to deploy the NG to Portland, Oregon.

This is despite TROs usually not being appealable and DOJ appealing Judge Immergut's first TRO but not the second one. (Though the full court might rehear en banc.)

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 17h

Possible direction violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which a judge in CA already determined occurred in LA in June.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

Perry: "Will they be solving crime in Chicago?"

Hamilton: "Certainly, to an extent."

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