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Overnight News Digest September 2, 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-09-02

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Chicago Sun-Times: Trump says feds are 'going in' to Chicago, Pritzker adds Texas troops may be en route by Tom Schuba, Mitchell Armentrout, Mariah Woelfel, Cindy Hernandez, and Anna Savchenko

After gun violence surged in Chicago over Labor Day weekend, President Donald Trump made it clear the city is firmly in his crosshairs. “We’re going in,” Trump said Tuesday after being asked whether National Guard troops were being deployed to the nation’s third largest city. “I didn’t say when.” The president presented himself as a savior, claiming he can quickly solve an intractable problem that again came into sharp focus over the long weekend. Sixty people were shot, eight of them fatally, mostly in areas that have long borne the brunt of the city’s gun violence. And while crime has fallen significantly in recent years, Trump is primed to make an example of Chicago this week, when federal immigration agents and National Guard troops are expected to begin blanketing the streets. Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday decried Trump’s crime-fighting promise as a partisan ploy to justify an unnecessary military presence in the Democratically-led city. And the governor, along with Illinois’ other most powerful Democrats, are urging members of the public not to fall for it.

The New York Times: L.A. Ruling Complicates Trump’s Threats to Send Troops to More Cities by Charlie Savage

A federal judge’s ruling that President Trump has been using troops illegally to perform law enforcement functions in Los Angeles will — if it stands — pose impediments to any plans Mr. Trump may have for sending the military into the streets of other cities, like Chicago. Mr. Trump has made those threats in the context of his anti-crime operation in Washington, D.C., which has involved both civilian federal agents and National Guard troops under federal control. But because the District of Columbia is not a state, the federal government has greater latitude to use the Guard there. The Posse Comitatus Act, enacted in 1878, makes it illegal to use federal troops for domestic policing under normal circumstances. So to keep from running afoul of that law, Mr. Trump would need a legal rationale for deploying troops to cities like Chicago. One potential model for Mr. Trump might be the reasoning his administration offered for sending troops to Los Angeles over the summer, ostensibly to protect federal agents and facilities. But on Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco held that the administration has been using those troops too expansively.

NBC News: Congress releases first batch of Epstein files, many of which were already public by Raquel Coronell Uribe, Tom Winter, Scott Wong, and Melanie Zanona

The House committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein released a batch of files Tuesday related to the late convicted sex offender amid pressure for the Trump administration to release more information about his case. The documents stem from a subpoena House Oversight Committee chair James Comer, R-Ky., issued last month to the Justice Department. The committee released 33,295 pages of records Tuesday, which it has referred to as a first batch of documents from the Justice Department. The content of all the records was not immediately clear, but many files had already been made public through court filings and other releases. The committee is investigating the Epstein case weeks after President Donald Trump and his administration faced outrage from both supporters and opponents for saying they would not release more files related to Epstein, even though Trump ran on a promise of more transparency.

USA Today: Trump says he'll ask Supreme Court to rule quickly on his tariffs by Maureen Groppe and Francesca Chambers

President Donald Trump said he will ask the Supreme Court to quickly decide whether he can keep the sweeping tariffs that are the centerpiece of his economic agenda but that lower courts ruled he doesn’t have the authority to impose. “It's going to the Supreme Court,” Trump told reporters on Sept. 2. “And we're going to ask for expedited − an expedited ruling." A Supreme Court appeal typically takes months to be heard – and often months more to be decided. But the justices can move more quickly when they want to. For example, the court in January upheld a law aimed at banning TikTok just weeks after the social media giant appealed a lower court’s ruling.

DW: Brazil: Supreme Court mulls verdict over Bolsonaro coup plot by Sain Dušan Inayatullah

Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday began verdict deliberations in the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro. The right-wing populist is accused of a plot to retain power after the 2022 election, in which he was defeated by current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Deliberations are scheduled to continue through to September 12. On January 8, 2023, Bolsonaro supporters stormed several government buildings in the capital, Brasilia, just days after Lula's inauguration. In July, Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet said that Bolsonaro and seven others had taken part in an "armed criminal association" that sought to "violently overthrow the democratic order." The proceedings mark the first trial of a former Brazilian president on coup charges. If convicted, Bolsonaro could face a prison sentence of over 40 years.

AlJazeera: Rescuers focus on remote Afghan regions after earthquake kills over 1,400

Rescuers are trying to reach remote areas in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar region after a devastating earthquake killed at least 1,411 people and wounded 3,124 others, according to Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. On Tuesday, Mujahid wrote in a post on X that 5,412 houses were destroyed due to the earthquake’s intensity. Kunar’s head of disaster management, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said earlier on Tuesday that efforts would be extended to more of the region’s mountainous areas. “We cannot accurately predict how many bodies might still be trapped under the rubble,” Ehsan said. “Our effort is to complete these operations as soon as possible and to begin distributing aid to the affected families,” he said, adding that some of those who were injured have been transferred to hospitals in neighbouring Nangarhar province and the capital, Kabul.

El País in English: Mexico ushers in a new era for its justice system with a judiciary elected by popular vote by Zedryk Raziel

For a year and a half, the media inside and outside Mexico has been writing about the implications of the sweeping judicial reform promoted by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the ruling Morena party. The constitutional amendment changed the way in which judges are appointed in the Latin American country: through direct citizen vote. Thousands of lawyers campaigned to win a position in the judiciary. The crown jewel was the Supreme Court, whose seats were filled by nine jurists sponsored by Morena. Mexico is now the only country in the world that elects all its judges by popular suffrage. Leading figures from the ruling party, starting with President Claudia Sheinbaum, maintain that the judiciary has been democratized and that from now on it will truly serve the interests of the people. On Monday, 881 elected federal judges took their office, which they must perform amid the tension of “serving the people” — according to Morena’s slogans — but without overly challenging the institutions of the government to which they are beholden. The independence of the Supreme Court from political power has been a subject of debate in academia and political circles. Morena deployed a massive electoral operation to steer the vote in favor of Hugo Aguilar, the new president of the Supreme Court, and the rest of the judges who will serve on the judicial body. Ignoring the criticism, Sheinbaum attended the Supreme Court Monday night for the inauguration of the new plenary session, prompting critics to point out the interference that, in their opinion, the government will have in the judiciary. The last Mexican president who reformed the judiciary, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) leader Ernesto Zedillo — three decades ago — decided not to attend the installation of that bench, in an attempt to publicly emphasize the separation between the branches of government. Zedillo’s reform sought to shake up a court that for years had been heavily subject to the will of the PRI presidential system. Morena maintains that the reform did nothing to change the subjection of judges to political and economic power and their separation from civic causes.

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