Today’s edition of quick hits.
* Californian leaders head to court: “California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta are asking a judge to bar the Trump administration from using federalized National Guard and active duty Marines for law enforcement purposes on the streets of Los Angeles.”
* On a related note, the aforementioned litigation faces an uphill climb: “One problem for the state’s lawsuit is that there is of course no settled definition of what a rebellion is.”
* The suspected shooter was among the fatalities in Austria’s school shooting: “At least 11 people were killed and several others injured in a school shooting Tuesday in the southern Austrian city of Graz. A spokesperson for the Graz Regional Hospital told NBC News that 11 people had died following the incident at the BORG Dreierschützengasse school, a secondary school located in the northwest of the city.”
* Rulings like these sure have been common lately: “President Donald Trump acted unlawfully when he issued an executive order applying an 18th century law to alleged Venezuelan gang members to expedite their removal from the United States, an El Paso federal judge ruled Monday.”
* A case out of Georgia that we’ve been keeping an eye on: “The State Election Board exceeded its authority by passing new voting rules last year, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday, limiting the Republican-led board’s power. The 96-page decision upholds a lower court decision that invalidated rules that would have required hand counts of ballots and election inquiries.”
* Difficult diplomacy: “Iran said Monday that it will soon hand a counter-proposal for a nuclear deal to the United States in response to a U.S. offer that Tehran deems ‘unacceptable,’ while U.S. President Donald Trump said talks would continue. Trump made clear that the two sides remained at odds over whether the country would be allowed to continue enriching uranium on Iranian soil.” * Will the CFPB ever be what it once was? “Cara Petersen, the acting head of enforcement for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, quit on Tuesday after sending a fiery email to her department denouncing the Trump administration’s efforts to gut the watchdog agency.” * The fight over forced-reset triggers is a very big deal: “A coalition of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s reversal of a Biden-era effort to curb the spread of devices that turn semiautomatic rifles into makeshift machine guns. The lawsuit, filed by 15 states and the District of Columbia in Federal District Court in Maryland, came after the Trump administration abandoned legal efforts to stop distribution of the devices and agreed to return thousands of the devices the government had seized.” See you tomorrow.
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
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