The National Emergency Continues to Nationally Emerge
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
OA1197 - The National Guard is being federalized and sent into cities that the President doesn’t like against the explicit will of state governors and local populations. Matt covers as much as we know from the legal developments around this ongoing national emergency, and Jenessa shares some good news which is already coming out of NY’s recent recently-enhanced equal protection amendment. Finally, in today’s footnote: how do you ticket a car from a moving violation when no one is driving it?
NOTE: since the time of this recording, a federal judge has found that the Trump administration’s stated reasons for deploying federal troops in Chicago are “simply unreliable” and blocked the deployment of the National Guard. More next week on this vital story.
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“Department of Defense Security For the Protection of Homeland Security Functions,” The White House (June 7, 2025)Â
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Affidavit of Portland Police Bureau Assistant Chief of Operations Craig Dobson, filed 9/29/2025
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Judge Immergut’s injunction in Trump v. Oregon dated 10/4/2025
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9th Circuit’s order staying Judge Breyer’s injunction dated 6/19/2025
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Memo from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dated 9/28/2025
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”For Trump Administration, Fighting Crime Takes a Backseat to Immigration Arrests,” The Marshall Project, Beth Schwarzapfel (10/4/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | willingness to fight and win wars on behalf of our nation at a moment's notice. |
| 0:05.7 | Haven't we had like decades of experience now and seeing what happens when you fight a war |
| 0:09.3 | in a moment's notice? |
| 0:17.7 | There's one thing we got a reputation for. |
| 0:20.6 | It's showing up with a bomb when you didn't ask. |
| 0:23.6 | Happy Friday, it is opening arguments, we're reporting live from a national emergency. I'm Matt Cameron, |
| 0:38.1 | and that over there is Janessa Seymour. And how's your national emergency going, Janessa? |
| 0:42.6 | The fires have not reached me yet. I'm not quite sure when they'll get here. The president can't |
| 0:48.7 | possibly be lying to me, right? So eventually this blue state will burn down. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah, New York is also war ravaged. I'm sure that I've seen that too. Even your part, no doubt, it will get there. Yeah, I was thinking more of the national emergency in which states are invading each other. We're being set up for that way. I just feel like we've got to say these things out loud. I can't believe this is real. Yeah, this is all real, and we've got to talk about it. |
| 1:11.0 | And again, once again, as with last week and all the many weeks before it, I'm going to be using my calmest podcasting voice. |
| 1:17.4 | And I'll be laughing while you tell me about an absolute nightmare, because that's what I'm, yeah. |
| 1:22.7 | If you've ever tried dating a surgeon, it's kind of like that. |
| 1:26.8 | Can't specifically recommend dating a surgeon, but nothing wrong with surgeons. Just very, very dark people. Lawyers have their moments, too, especially immigration lawyers, dealing with the kinds of things that we have to talk about. We're just going to be, again, as straight ahead as possible. And because we are independent media, we can tell it like it is, and we're going to give it to you the best we can because unlike traditional journalists, we do actually have opinions that we can tell you. |
| 1:48.7 | So my opinion right now is that we are really absolutely, even more than we were, in the midst |
| 1:55.0 | of a national emergency that is developing very quickly. And we're going to try to give you the basics |
| 1:58.6 | on what is going on right now. I know it's a lot to follow. A lot of it ties into what we were talking about last time with the Antifa order and sort of the way that this administration is now governing completely on lies, just completely on things are just not true, not just stretching the truth, but just actually lying about what it's doing and why. So we'll talk about all that. |
| 2:17.6 | But then I understand that on your side of things, we've got some good news, which we are |
| 2:21.0 | trying to incorporate as much as possible about something that's happening in New York. |
| 2:24.7 | Yeah. The fact that this story is happening is not great, but we've got a big fight that I think is |
| 2:33.4 | going to come down in favor of the side of trans kids. |
| 2:37.4 | Good story for New York fighting for our own citizens here. |
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