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JB Pritzker spent a decade working with Holocaust survivors. That experience is fueling his alarm about Trump. I sat down with him at the museum he helped build to discuss how that and his family story of surviving the pogroms shapes his worldview. csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2…

SCOOP: The Trump admin has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling ICE officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three U.S. officials. nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/…

JUST IN: Judge Breyer declines to postpone his preliminary injunction schedule re: the Guard and Marine deployment on L.A. He notes, but takes no position, on Newsom’s claim that the appeals court has no jurisdiction over Breyer’s temporary restraining order.

NEWS: The forthcoming Senate GOP tax bill lowers Medicaid provider tax to 3.5% - a huge departure from the House bill it's already setting off shockwaves on the Hill + will be a huge fight to come w/ Benjamin Guggenheim Jordain Carney subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

NEW: MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell found liable for defamation for his statements about Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer. Federal jury orders Lindell to pay $2.3M, far less than the $62.7M requested by Coomer’s attorneys.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full email below

The woman charged for spitting on Ed Martin has been detained in DC jail for threatening a neighbor and banging on her door with a crowbar. She's being screened for competency. Prosecutor in the local case? The demoted Jason McCullough, who put the Proud Boys in jail after J6.

Gov. Newsom's arguments did not appear to fare well at the appeals court this afternoon. All three judges had pointed questions about the state's arguments against Trump's Guard deployment — and it appears unlikely the panel will let Breyer's earlier order take effect. Details TK

JUST IN: Judge of the moment Brian Murphy of US District Court in Boston blocks Defense Department from capping universities' indirect cost reimbursement (essentially overhead) at 15% on federal contracts with DoD. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the State Department from enforcing the Trump administration's passport gender policy, which bars passport holders from select an X or identifying as a gender other than their sex at birth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Federal judge in Florida invokes Alice in Wonderland as she holds Florida's attorney general in contempt for violating her order to bar enforcement of a state immigration law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

NEW: A California court has upheld the disbarment recommendation for John EASTMAN, the attorney who helped develop President Trump's last-ditch effort to subvert the 2020 election. Eastman plans to appeals to CA Supreme Court. politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

NEW: A federal appeals court panel seemed poised to allow Trump's National Guard deployment to remain in place, sharply questioning Gov. Gavin Newsom's legal claims seeking to unravel it. w/ Josh Gerstein politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia retains private counsel to defend him in criminal immigrant smuggling case. Former Deputy TNMD US Atty Office Crim Chief Rascoe Dean & NYC firm Hecker Fink to replace federal defenders. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/2597… Earlier: politico.com/news/2025/06/1…