The order directs the Secretary of Defense to mobilize the District of Columbia National Guard to address the high rate of violent crime in Washington, D.C. The Secretary is also instructed to coordinate with state governors and authorize additional National Guard members for active service as needed. The mobilization and active service will continue until it is determined that law and order have been restored in the District of Columbia.

The order directs federal agencies to prevent financial institutions from denying services based on political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities. The Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Federal member agencies of the Financial Stability Oversight Council are instructed to remove the use of reputation risk or equivalent concepts that could result in such discrimination within 180 days. The SBA is also directed to notify all financial institutions with which it guarantees loans about this directive within 60 days.

The order directs federal agencies to increase the additional ad valorem duty rate from 25% to 35% on certain products of Canada, in response to the country's alleged lack of cooperation in stopping the flow of illicit drugs across the northern border. The increased duty rate applies to all articles previously subject to the 25% rate under a prior order. The changes will be effective for goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, from August 1, 2025.

The order directs federal agencies to address homelessness and related issues in the United States. The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is to take steps to encourage civil commitment of individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public and are living on the streets. The Attorney General, along with the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation, are to prioritize discretionary grants to states and municipalities that enforce prohibitions on drug use, urban camping, and loitering, and that address individuals with mental illness or substance use disorder. The order also directs resources towards assessing homeless individuals arrested for federal crimes, and ensuring detainees with serious mental illness are not released due to lack of forensic bed capacity

The order directs federal agencies to address the challenges facing college sports in the United States. It highlights the critical role college sports play in providing scholarships and leadership opportunities to over 500,000 student-athletes, contributing to local economies, and shaping American culture. The order emphasizes the need for a national solution to protect non-revenue sports and maintain the educational and developmental benefits of collegiate athletics, in light of recent litigation that has significantly altered athlete compensation rules and threatened the viability of college sports.

The order directs federal agencies to create a new Schedule G in the excepted service for noncareer positions of a policy-making or policy-advocating character. This is to address the gap in the current excepted service schedules, which do not have a category for these types of positions. Appointments to these positions, which are expected to change with Presidential transitions, will now be made under this new Schedule G. The Office of Personnel Management is tasked with implementing the necessary regulations for this order.

The order sends to the Senate the nominations of three individuals for judicial positions. Joshua D. Dunlap is nominated as United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, replacing retired William J. Kayatta, Jr. William W. Mercer is nominated as United States District Judge for the District of Montana, replacing Dana L. Christensen who is retiring. Eric Chunyee Tung is nominated as United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, replacing Sandra Segal Ikuta who is retiring.

A federal judge ruled that ICE agents were conducting roving immigration raids without "reasonable suspicion" and instead were relying on improper factors like race, accent, and line of work to apprehend people. The ruling halts the roving raids, at least temporarily. The judge also ordered that DHS provide detainees with access to telephones and legal counsel while detained.

Congressional Republicans pulled together as expected after a few hours of noisy faux-independence and voted to pass the president's signature agenda item: the One Big Beautiful Bill. It's got tax breaks for the wealthy, benefit cuts for the poor, and a ginormous budget bump for the Department of Homeland Security (and a more modest one for the Pentagon). We'll probably learn more of what it's got over the coming days as observers delve into its nooks and crannies. Happy Fourth of July, America.

The proclamation designates July 5, 2025, as the 160th Anniversary of the United States Secret Service. The document acknowledges the service's history and current role, noting that it protects the President, Vice President, their families, former presidents, major presidential candidates, and visiting foreign dignitaries. The proclamation also calls on all Americans to express gratitude and respect to the 8,000 employees of the United States Secret Service.

The Justice department put forward in a memo a plan to prioritize denaturalization in cases involving naturalized citizens who have broken the law. In the memo, DOJ leadership said denaturalization would become a top five priority for Civil Division staff.

Last week's SCOTUS ruling narrowing lower courts' ability to order nationwide injunctions left unsettled the underlying question about the legality of the president's executive order meant to end birthright citizenship. SCOTUS gave opponents of the executive order 30 days to get legal arguments and cases underway. Meanwhile, 28 U.S. states didn't challenge the order, and those may allow the order to go into effect once the 30 day period passes, potentially ending birthright citizenship in those states.

The administration will revoke Temporary Protected Status and work permits for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in September. The protected status has allowed Haitians to immigrate from their crisis-stricken nation to the U.S. legally since 2010. The administration said that crisis conditions in Haiti have abated enough to end the program. Meanwhile, the State Department advises Americans to avoid travel to Haiti due to its widespread gang violence.

The Justice Department fired at least three prosecutors involved in the U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases. Previously the Justice Department fired about three dozen attorneys involved in pursuing Jan 6 criminal convictions.

A three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Trump II administration had a legitimate interest in protecting federal employees and property and that federalizing the California National Guard to do so was within the president's powers. The court also said that the government must provide justification for its action, and the case will return to the lower court to make that determination.

A federal judge ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a student and activist at Columbia University. He was held in a Louisiana immigration detention center for three months after DHS agents arrested him, one of the first students targeted for deportation for their pro-Palestine protest actions on campus. He was the last of several noncitizen students picked up during the administration's crackdown last spring to be released.

The order directs federal agencies to extend the enforcement delay of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, specifically as it applies to TikTok, until September 17, 2025. During this period, the Department of Justice is instructed not to enforce the Act or impose any penalties for noncompliance, including for actions related to foreign adversary controlled applications. The Attorney General is tasked with issuing written guidance to implement this directive and to confirm to each provider that no violations of the statute have occurred during the specified period.

A federal court ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it "federalized" the California National Guard last week to provide security for federal property and personnel in Los Angeles where protests erupted over the Department of Homeland Security's aggressive immigration-enforcement actions. Soon thereafter a three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit stayed the lower court's ruling, pending a hearing on June 17. The National Guard remains federalized and under Trump's control.

U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver, Democrat from New Jersey, was indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts of "forcibly impeding and interfering" with federal law enforcement. McIver was charged last month following a fracas outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey. McIver and other officials had visited the private detention center to inspect it. Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced the indictment on the social media platform X.

David Huerta, Service Employees International Union California leader, was arrested Friday during a protest at an ICE immigrant detention center in Downtown Los Angeles. On Monday he was charged with conspiracy to impede an officer, a federal felony. The crime has a maximum sentence of six years in prison. He was released on $50,000 bond.

The Trump administration has activated 700 active-duty Marines to support National Guardsmen tasked with protecting federal property and federal immigration enforcement agents. Protests have erupted at a Downtown Los Angeles immigrant detention center and elsewhere around the city in response to DHS efforts to detain undocumented immigrants. Marines are expected to begin arriving in the city Tuesday. California's governor has slammed the deployments as unconstitutional and intended to heighten tensions around DHS tactics, and the Los Angeles Chief of Police has also been critical.

The president has authorized an additional 2,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles, bringing the total to 4,000. Meanwhile, 700 Marines are expected to begin arriving Tuesday. California governor Gavin Newsom said of the deployments "this isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego." The governor and California Attorney General Rob Bonta have sued Trump over the deployments.

The Trump White House said it had rescinded a Biden-era policy that required hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women whose health was threatened, including in states that have banned abortion. While the policy memo is rescinded, the administration's statement said hospitals are still required to provide emergency care.

The Supreme Court used the 'shadow docket' to rule that the administration has the authority to remove immigrant 'parole' status, en masse, rather than one-by-one. Parole status allows an immigrant to live, and potentially work, in the U.S. for up to two years. Orders passed down via the shadow docket don't get the full briefing and arguments treatment. Use of the shadow docket has become more frequent (and controversial).

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade struck down the president's tariffs on dozens of countries saying his claims of national emergencies exceeded his authority. The court's ruling also says the government may have to pay back tariff dues already collected. The Justice Department appealed.

On Wednesday the president pardoned or commuted the sentences of a couple dozen convicted criminals. Recipients of the get out of jail free cards included former gang leaders, an ex-Congressman convicted of tax evasion, reality TV stars guilty of defrauding banks and evading taxes, and a former governor of Connecticut. Many of the pardoned are vocal Trump supporters. Before this week's pardon-palooza, Ed Martin, the administration's chief pardons official, said on social media, "No MAGA left behind."

President Trump nominated Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official, to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania). Previously Bove represented Trump as his private attorney in several cases during the Biden era.

Peter Baker of the New York Times brings together several threads of Trump II presidential 'monetization' (the crypto fund raiser, the Trump Org real estate deals, the free luxury jet), and gets some comments from stunned ethics watchdogs. We're barely three months in; there's still plenty of time for the president and his family to pile up lots more loot.

The DOJ announced a plan to drop civil rights lawsuits against police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky. The assistant attorney general for civil rights said the Justice Department would stop the underlying investigations and would not seek consent decrees against the departments.

The order directs federal agencies to enforce the "Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act", or the “TAKE IT DOWN” Act. This law introduces criminal penalties for intentional disclosure of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions and mandates covered platforms to remove such content.