The presence of federal officers in Portland is actually making things much worse, the city’s police commander said.

“I think they wanted to make a point. So they picked the weakest person they could find and made a big show out of it.”

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley spoke all night into the next morning about how Trump is pushing the country toward authoritarianism.

Two Trump judges have decided to help the president out in his war on Portland, as the third judge on the court issued a dark warning.

Oriana Korol has since been transported across state lines, and her husband has no idea when they’ll hear from her again.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

Attorney General Pam Bondi was grilled on Trump’s decision to deploy troops to Illinois and Chicago.

The Oregon Republican Party is lying for Donald Trump.

The White House adviser is being dragged to hell for a delusional rewrite of riots in U.S. history.

Karoline Leavitt can’t defend the White House’s main talking point on deploying troops to Portland.

District Court Judge Karin Immergut’s opinion shows that courage in judging doesn’t require rhetoric or defiance—only the quiet insistence that facts still matter.

The Trump adviser can’t stand judicial independence, apparently.

Minutes after Pete Hegseth promised to untie the hands of the military and unleash violence, Donald Trump named the cities he’d go to war with next.

Oregon is not taking the looming National Guard presence lying down.

A group of states on the East Coast have formed their own health coalition.

The move comes after a week of total chaos at the CDC.

Officers with the federal agency lobbed so many toxic chemicals at protesters, a nearby school was forced to leave.

Oregon’s Tina Kotek did the right thing this week. But other Democratic governors and leaders are opposing measures that would unambiguously help workers. Shame on them.

Senator Ron Wyden has introduced the boldest proposal yet to reform the high court.

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden are referring Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas to the Justice Department.