Social Circle, a small town in Georgia, is complaining that a proposed ICE “megacenter” would violate the state’s “public nuisance” law – meaning it would harm the “health, safety, and wellbeing” of the town’s 5,000 or so residents. The town has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the plan, and aspects of the complaint show Social Circle “is willing to pursue a new legal theory to defend their rights, to defend their town”, said Adam Lauridsen, one of the plaintiff’s attorneys.
Social Circle is located in a county where nearly 75% voted for Trump. Eric Taylor, city manager for Social Circle, told the Guardian “we went the route we had to go”, given that the proposed plans for his town would triple the local population, putting strains on drinking water and sewage, as well as on local police and ambulances. The complaint goes further than other similar recently filed lawsuits, alleging that the homeland security department and ICE have violated the federal Administrative Procedures Act (APA) – which “requires reasoned decision-making reasonable alternatives”, according to the complaint.
A high-profile Democrat has expressed concerns with party candidate Graham Platner’s Maine US Senate campaign amid revelations that Platner reportedly sent a number of sexually explicit messages to other women while married. “Yes, I have concerns,” Cory Booker, the US senator from New Jersey, said Sunday on ABC’s This Weekwhen host Jonathan Karl when asked about the Platner revelations. **“**That guy has questions to answer – and that’s what campaigns are for.” The Trump administration’s interior secretary, Doug Burgum, has complained that some musicians “seem to have segmented their audiences” after artists bailed on participating in a concert series planned for the 250th anniversary of US independence.
Homicides in the US have fallen dramatically in recent years after a spike during the Covid pandemic, but now some advocates for community violence intervention programs worry federal funding cuts. **Family visitation at a New Jersey immigration detention center** is being restored to at least part of the facility, officials confirmed, after a week during which heated demonstrations at the site were met with aggressive policing tactics. Could Trump’s Iran excursion be a bigger global turning point than Vietnam?
The far shorter Middle East war has rapidly revealed the **strategic weakness of US firepower in an interconnected world**, writes Patrick Wintour, the Guardian’s diplomatic editor. The lead prosecutor in the case against former FBI director James Comey over a **social media picture of seashells** has withdrawn from the case, according to a court filing.
Matthew Petracca is replaced strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, **killing three men**, the second strike in as many days. The Trump administration says the US is at war with drug cartels but has not provided definitive evidence that the vessels or the people killed are involved in trafficking.
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