Seventeen of Maryland's 24 sheriffs are suing their own state in federal court over the Community Trust Act, the law that bars local police and county jails from questioning immigration status, holding anyone to check citizenship, or telling federal immigration authorities about people in their custody without a court order. An ICE detainer is not enough. The suit was filed in May in Greenbelt with the Federation for American Immigration Reform as counsel. This week the sheriff leading it, Jeffrey Gahler of Harford County, took it to Capitol Hill one week before the 25th anniversary of 9/11: "When you pass legislation in a world post-9/11, in 9/11 we learned that we need to communicate with all federal partners." His verdict on the law: "stupidity at its best." Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins told DC News Now the law "has handcuffed me totally." The bill's author, State Senator Clarence Lam, told FOX 5 the sheriffs are "trying to demonstrate fealty to Donald Trump and ICE." One state south, a federal judge has already frozen Virginia's version of the same law. Chuck reads the suit, the testimony, the law's own text and the other side, as reported by Fox News, The Washington Times, FOX 5 and DC News Now.
Also in today's episode: the Trump administration goes to the Supreme Court with an emergency application to lift Judge Indira Talwani's order blocking the new Postal Service mail-ballot rules, on the day North Carolina starts mailing ballots, per SCOTUSblog and The Washington Post; Iran says it fired missiles and drones at Ahmed al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait and Al Minhad Air Base in the Emirates, Kuwait says it intercepted them, the Emirates calls the Al Minhad claim false, and no American casualties have been reported; the president writes on Truth Social that American ammunition is "virtually unlimited" and that Europe will be asked to pay for what went to Ukraine; a Los Angeles podcaster is indicted on three federal counts for threats against the president and cyberstalking the president's former lawyer, and pleads not guilty; Maine's highest court rules against a mother fighting to take her daughter to church, and Liberty Counsel says it will petition the U.S. Supreme Court; Fox News parts ways with Maria Bartiromo after twelve and a half years in a one-sentence statement; the vice president's mother answers the Michigan Senate candidate who called her grandchildren "brown kids"; George Clooney tells the Venice Film Festival that "the people with the most money are telling us to fear one another"; and a man digging a terrace in his garden in Denmark hits the largest Viking silver hoard in the country's history.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
