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Judge says Trump’s acting US Attorney investigating Letitia James is serving unlawfully

New York Attorney General, Letitia James, speaks after pleading not guilty outside the United States District Court on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, in Norfolk, Va.

"A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration’s pick to be the US Attorney for the Northern District of New York must stop his work on two ongoing criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s political foe Letitia James, the New York state attorney general.

The ruling, which says prosecutor John Sarcone is not the valid acting US Attorney out of Albany, quashes grand jury subpoenas Sarcone signed in August that were sent to the New York state government and sought information on investigations James spearheaded and that Trump opposed.

It is the latest blowback from the courts to nullify prosecutors the president has wanted to empower but who haven’t been Senate confirmed.

“Mr. Sarcone is not lawfully serving as Acting U.S. Attorney.” Judge Lorna Schofield wrote on Thursday. “Any of his past or future acts taken in that capacity are void or voidable as they would rest on authority Mr. Sarcone does not lawfully have.”

Schofield added: “When the Executive branch of government skirts restraints put in place by Congress and then uses that power to subject political adversaries to criminal investigations, it acts without lawful authority.”

The judge’s opinion follows similar decisions from the courts against Trump’s unconfirmed US attorney choices in New Jersey, Nevada, California and Virginia.

Generally, the judges have decided the Trump administration is blowing past federal appointment laws that require eventual Senate confirmation of a US Attorney or, to put the appointment in the hands of the court. In each of the districts where courts have ruled against the maneuvers, the Trump administration had put in place top prosecutors, calling them acting US Attorneys, and insisted in some places they still have power even after the rulings.

“This decision is an important win for the rule of law and we will continue to defend our office’s successful litigation from this administration’s political attacks,” a spokesperson from James’ office said in a statement following the decision Thursday.

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Schofield, a nominee of former President Barack Obama who sits in Manhattan in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, was brought in to handle the decision on the subpoenas and Sarcone as a way to avoid conflicts of interest from judges in the Northern District.

In December, James’ lawyers had gone to the court in Albany to try to disqualify Sarcone from criminally investigating James’ past civil case against Trump’s business practices. Sarcone, using a grand jury in the Northern District of New York, had sought records relating to the state’s civil investigations into the Trump Organization’s finances and the National Rifle Association.

In August, Sarcone signed two subpoenas sent to the New York attorney general’s office as part of a criminal investigation into whether anyone’s constitutional rights were violated during the state investigations into Trump and the NRA.

Schofield’s order specifies that those are the two investigations Sarcone can no longer work on in any capacity as a federal prosecutor.

Sarcone was appointed by Attorney General Pam Bondi as an interim US attorney in March. When his 120-day term expired, the district court judges did not appoint anyone to the position. In July, Bondi named Sarcone special attorney and designated him as first assistant US attorney. He has assumed the position of acting US attorney.

James sued Donald Trump and the Trump Organization in 2022 alleging they inflated the value of properties to get better rates on loans and insurance. A judge found Trump and his adult sons liable for fraud and ordered him to pay more than $350 million plus interest. A state appeals court upheld the fraud finding but threw out the judgment as excessive. Both parties have appealed.

The state also sued the NRA and its leadership alleging it violated nonprofit laws. A jury found the NRA mismanaged charitable funds.

James has been in the crosshairs of the Trump Justice Department over the past year, which culminated in her indictment by a federal grand jury last fall in Virginia. Prosecutors alleged she made fraudulent statements in a mortgage application to obtain a slightly better loan interest rate on a house she bought in Norfolk years ago. James pleaded not guilty, and the case was dismissed because a judge found the Trump-picked interim US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who secured that indictment, Lindsey Halligan, also wasn’t validly appointed as a prosecutor.

The Virginia-based federal prosecutors then failed to re-indict James. That criminal probe is separate from the ones Schofield ruled on in New York on Thursday from Sarcone."

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No Kings Protests Held Across the U.S.: Photos and Videos - The New York Times

A Show of Defiance Across the Nation

"It’s the third time that the coalition behind the “No Kings” movement has organized events to protest President Trump and his policies. In the United States, more than 3,000 demonstrations were planned.

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Protesters gather in front of the Idaho State Capitol during the No Kings Day protest in Boise, Idaho.Loren Elliott for The New York Times

In big cities and small towns across the world, protesters gathered for thousands of rallies against President Trump and his policies and actions, with the self-stated goal of fighting dictatorship.

Demonstrators, including elected officials and community leaders, chanted defiant messages and carried homemade signs that condemned the war in Iran, threats against voting rights and the White House’s mass deportation push, among other topics. Organized by a coalition of activist groups under the banner “No Kings,” it was the third such countrywide protest in the past 10 months.

No Kings organizers said eight million people took part, one of the largest protests in recent history. Their estimates in some cities were higher than those of local public safety officials. The New York Times is doing its own reporting on some of the turnout, but has not independently confirmed the numbers from the thousands of protest sites.

Bruce Springsteen standing onstage near a microphone and holding his black guitar over his head with his left hand. — Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

One of the largest rallies took place outside the Minnesota Capitol, where the singer Bruce Springsteen performed “Streets of Minneapolis,” which he wrote to protest the immigration crackdown that led to the fatal shootings of two American citizens by federal agents in January.

“They picked the wrong city,” Mr. Springsteen told the large crowd, adding that “these invasions of American cities will not stand.”

In Washington, D.C., some protesters marched to the military base where Stephen Miller, the White House official overseeing the mass deportation push, has been residing. Some chanted, “Stephen Miller’s got to go,” and “We’ve got the people outside your door.”

Protesters marched down small town main streets and thoroughfares, many bundled up to withstand chilly temperatures. Attendees at small gatherings, including one in Richmond, Ky., waved American flags as drivers signaled support by honking. In Atlanta, protesters chanted for an end to immigration raids.

Demonstrators seized upon topics where they said there was overreach by the Trump administration, including health care and the environment.

A White House spokeswoman, Abigail Jackson, called the protests “Trump derangement therapy sessions” in a statement on Thursday.

The protests, organizers have said, intentionally lack a single, specific demand but rather seek to harness energy on a wide variety of grievances regarding Mr. Trump and his policies.

Here are a selection of scenes.

Like many silver-haired protesters gathered at Auditorium Shores, a riverside park in Austin, Texas, Gilbert Martinez, a 93-year-old Korean War veteran, sees Mr. Trump as reckless and rebellious. And that’s not aligned with the values Mr. Martinez has spent his life preaching.

He called the attack on Iran a “diversion.”

“That idiot is going to cause a lot of good military people to lose their lives,” he said.

A longtime local business leader, Mr. Martinez is from the Texas Panhandle and says he can trace his family lineage to El Paso. He started Austin’s Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in 1973, he said, because in those days, downtown was a “backwater” devoid of Hispanic-owned businesses.

“I’m an American,” Mr. Martinez said. “We didn’t just get here.”

Chicagoans gathered at Grant Park, where Saira Bensett, 60, a retired zoological worker, described the turnout as cathartic.

“When I watch the news it’s often too much — the emotions I feel make me feel like I’m alone,” she said. “So I wanted to be here to feel like I’m not by myself.”

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton of Illinois, who is also the Democratic nominee for a Senate seat, told a crowd, “We all know the power of turning our anger into action.”

Many who gathered outside the Minnesota State Capitol said they had been driven to protest by the tumultuous monthslong presence of federal immigration officers in the Twin Cities region.

“We don’t want to walk out our door in fear,” said Chas Jensen, 68, who has lived in St. Paul his entire life and marched with his wife, Kitty Warner. “I’ve seen a lot over the years, but nothing like this.”

“It’s been hell, the last few months,” added Sadikshya Aryal, who came from South Minneapolis with her husband and two friends. Ms. Aryal, 32, still carries her passport whenever she leaves her house, she said.

Attendees said they felt the area had not returned to normal since the immigration operation but were comforted by how many people showed up Saturday.

“As much as it can feel helpless, this shows it’s not,” said Ms. Warner, 80.

The Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, gave a fiery address from behind a row of bulletproof glass panels, which underscored fears of political violence. Referring to the president’s oft-stated disdain for Somali immigrants, Mr. Walz said that their grandchildren would remain in the United States long after “the orange clown is in the dustbin of history.”

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In New York City, Valerie Tirado said she decided to attend an anti-Trump demonstration for the first time because her son, a Marine, was set to be deployed to the Middle East.

“Trump is using these military men as pawns, just to flex,” said Ms. Tirado, 60, a registered Democrat.

Spouses Michael Bianco and Susan Draper said they had demonstrated in the streets for causes they support since 1968. What struck them most about Saturday’s was how many people their age were on the streets.

“I want to express my disdain,” said Ms. Draper, 77, a retired N.Y.U. urban anthropology professor.

Eileen McHugh, 59, traveled an hour from her Republican-leaning town in Westchester County to protest at Columbus Circle.

“The whole Republican Party has blood on their hands,” Ms. McHugh said. “Bombing boats in Venezuela and schools in Iran is murder.”

Loren Elliott for The New York Times

While immigration policy was the focus of past No Kings protests in Atlanta, demonstrators on Saturday drew attention to the war in Iran, the toll the partial government shutdown is taking on air travel and a bill Republicans are championing to tighten voting rules.

“They just keep pushing the limits every day to see how far they can take their regime,” said Alan Reed, 72, who attended the protest using a walker and had a rainbow flag draped over his back. “To see how much authority they can grab, until they can cancel our elections.”

Nicholas Phillips, 34, of Long Beach, Calif., cooled himself outside Los Angeles City Hall with a rainbow fan, joined by friends.

Mr. Phillips, who is gay, said he came to protest the Trump administration’s anti-transgender policies and the potential for the Supreme Court to reverse the country’s marriage equality laws.

“It’s important to show up,” he said.

Later in the day, tensions escalated toward a separate group of protesters who had gathered outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center. Tear gas was deployed, and rubber bullets were shot into the crowd. The police declared an unlawful assembly, formed a line, and made several arrests.

In statements on social media, the Los Angeles Police Department said that federal authorities had used nonlethal measures to move the crowd back after protesters were warned not to throw items or try to tear down the gate.

A city councilor, Sameer Kanal, described “a sea of Portlanders” in a park near downtown. Many were wearing the inflatable animal costumes that have made the city’s anti-immigration rallies a viral sensation.

Deana Fredericks, 65, was among a group of women wearing outfits inspired by “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a show drawn from the Margaret Atwood novel that depicts a totalitarian society in which women are treated as property. “We’re concerned about women’s rights, but it’s also gone beyond that,” she said, citing the Iran war and voting rights.

Later, outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, hundreds of protesters gathered, with some breaking open a gate at the entrance of the building. The authorities pushed them back. State and city police officers arrived to further break up the crowd.

Friction rose through the night. After protesters broke open the gate a second time, federal agents responded. Multiple roughly brought several of the protesters into the building.

No Kings protesters gathered at the park at Pier A in Hoboken on the banks of the Hudson River on a chilly morning. A local folk singer, Ed Fogarty, played the classic Bob Dylan protest song “Blowin’ in the Wind.”

Noah Schwartz, 54, one of the organizers of a march from Jersey City to Hoboken, used a bullhorn to lead the crowd in a chant.

“We will not stop our fun, our joy, our democracy,” he said. “Say it once, say it twice! We will not put up with ICE!”

Protesters with signs slung over their shoulders streamed into Anchorage’s Town Square Park, as temperatures hovered around 20.

Lynette Moreno-Hinz, a 67-year-old cabdriver from Anchorage, played a skin drum for the crowd. Ms. Moreno-Hinz, who is Tlingit, said she was protesting because Alaska Natives are concerned about federal support for myriad tribal programs. “He’s taking away the money for our Native people,” she said, referring to Mr. Trump.

The No Kings movement debuted in February 2025 on Presidents’ Day. The decentralized coalition had a stronger showing last June, on the day Mr. Trump marked his birthday by ordering the military to stage a large parade in Washington, D.C. The groups reported an even larger turnout in October.

In London, demonstrators carried scowling bobbleheads of Mr. Trump; the first lady, Melania Trump; and Vice President JD Vance. Caricatures of Elon Musk, Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem also hovered over the crowd.

Carmen Kingston, a New Yorker who has lived in Britain for a decade, carried a poster with the words “Minab Massacre,” referring to the strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed at least 175 people, most of them children.

The war, she said, is “part of a domestics political climate that includes the erosion of democratic institutions, democratic guardrails and unaccountable violence.”

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‘No kings,’ Ossoff declares in weekend speech in Savannah - The Current

‘No kings,’ Ossoff declares in weekend speech in Savannah

"Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator steps up reelection campaign with criticism of the ‘big, beautiful bill’

Jon Ossoff speaks at a campaign rally in Savannah on July 12, 2025 Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight Local

Jon Ossoff came to Savannah over the weekend to deliver “a report from our nation’s capital.” And the news, he said, isn’t good.

“Donald Trump wants the whole country to fear,” the 38-year-old Democratic U.S. senator from Atlanta told hundreds of supporters gathered at the Kehoe Iron Works building on a sweltering, mid-summer afternoon.

“I’ve heard it from people at every level, including people with power, people with status, people with resources. They come to my office, and they tell me they’re afraid to say anything. They’re afraid of retribution, investigation, destruction, vengeance from their own government.”

Ossoff’s visit to Savannah comes as he steps up campaigning ahead of what is expected to be one of the most crucial — and most expensive — election races in the nation next year. At stake could be control of the U.S. Senate.

Ossoff has already raised over $15 million for his campaign this year, as he prepares to take on a spate of Republican challengers. During his visit to the coast, he also attended a fundraiser at a private home in the Hostess City.

Jon Ossoff speaks at a campaign rally in Savannah on July 12, 2025 (Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight Local)

Finding a message?

In his 26-minute speech, Ossoff lambasted the GOP’s recently passed tax-and spending bill, which is expected to balloon federal debt by at least $3 trillion. He decried provisions that will make cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), while lowering taxes for the wealthiest Americans — moves that Ossoff said contradict Republican claims to be the party of the working class.

Those remarks by Ossoff on Saturday suggest that he and other Democrats might have already found their main message for next year’s midterm elections.

Again and again on Saturday, he returned to what he said was the betrayal of working-class Americans by the president, as exemplified by what Trump and his supporters have dubbed the “big, beautiful bill.”

“Donald Trump said he was going to fight for working-class Americans. What he really meant was he was going to take away your health care to cut taxes for the rich,” Ossoff said.

Ossoff, who narrowly flipped his seat alongside Rev. Raphael Warnock in 2020, is viewed as the most vulnerable Democratic senator up for reelection in 2026. Although Democrats won Georgia in 2020, the Peach State returned to its Republican roots in 2024, and Ossoff’s GOP election challengers, including Coastal Georgia Congressman Earl “Buddy” Carter, see the state as too Republican to have two Democrats in Washington.

Supporters of Jon Ossoff look on as he speaks at a campaign rally in Savannah on July 12, 2025 (Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight Local)

Promises kept, broken

But Ossoff appears to believe that healthcare is a winning issue for him and other Democrats.

He said Saturday that Republicans are “destroying” Medicaid, which in Georgia covers 40 percent of children, nearly 50 percent of all births and about 70 percent of nursing home residents. While on the subject of healthcare, Ossoff narrowed in on the high costs of ambulance rides and the lack of healthcare infrastructure in rural areas, problems that have been exacerbated since Trump took office, he said.

Following Trump’s signing of the mammoth tax-and-spending bill in a ceremony on the White House lawn on July 4, the White House led a chorus of Republicans in the slogan, “Promises made, promises kept.”

In his remarks, Ossoff sought to turn that boast on its head, listing off Trump’s “broken promises,” ranging from his vow to end wars in Ukraine and Gaza to his assurance that he’d release sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein’s “client list.”

“Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?” Ossoff quipped.

That message resonated with Ossoff’s sympathetic audience on Saturday.

“Everything in the big new bill is just a crime, and I know Senator Ossoff opposed that big time,” Carol Young, who came to the rally from Pooler, said.

“Our federal government is gutting everything, like the Weather Service and FEMA and health care, and I’m terrified of just everything they’re going to do.”

As to why Trump and the GOP have backed a bill that eliminates what many Americans consider essential government services?

In a message that is likely to resound in campaigning for next year’s midterm elections, Ossoff said it was to give wealthy donors a tax break. Starting with Trump, the corruption driving American politics, he said, is the worst in the Western world.

“He’s a crook, and he wants to be a king,” he said. But, “Georgia will bow to no king.”

Lily Belle Poling is a rising junior at Yale. She is a summer 2025 intern at The Current GA with support from the Ida B. Wells Society in collaboration with the Nonprofit Newsroom Internship Program created by The Scripps Howard Fund and the Institute for Nonprofit News."

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Live updates: 'No Kings' protests in metro Atlanta on Saturday | 11alive.com

Live updates: 'No Kings' protests in metro Atlanta on Saturday

Thousands are expected to attend demonstrations in Atlanta and around the metro area on Saturday.

Atlanta demonstration largely wrapped up

Following an earlier rally near the Georgia Capitol and march around the building, the protest in Atlanta trickled back to the Memorial Drive Greenway and has now by and large dispersed as of 1 p.m.

As for the rest of the day, organizers for "No Kings" demonstrations listed several more happening later into the afternoon in metro Atlanta. Those include one in McDonough running from 12:30 to 2 p.m.; one in Marietta from 1-3 p.m.; one in Sandy Springs from 2:30-4:30 p.m.; one in Smyrna from 3-5 p.m. and one in Fayetteville from 4-5:30 p.m.

11Alive's live coverage has discontinued as of 1 p.m. You can see clips both in the blog entries below and in the video player above this story, as well as on our YouTube page.

Memorial Drive march video

Here's a sped-up version of the Atlanta "No Kings" march moving along Memorial Drive a little after noon.

Atlanta march returning to Memorial Drive Greenway

The march paused for a moment at Memorial Drive and Capitol Ave., and is now coming down Memorial.

As of about 12:20 p.m., it's crossing the Fraser Street and Memorial intersection.

Credit: WXIA

Credit: WXIA

'No Kings' protest also in Cobb County

There's also a No Kings demonstration underway in East Cobb, at the intersection of Roswell Road and Johnson Ferry Road.

Several dozen people were lining the four corners of the intersection arond noontime.

Credit: WXIA

'No Kings' protesters are marching around Georgia Capitol

The protest Saturday includes a march from the greenway running about a half mile to the state Capitol, going around the Capitol and returning. It's currently underway.

Traffic cameras showed the rear of the march was passing back through the intersection of MLK Jr. Drive and Piedmont/Capitol Ave. (northeast corner of the Capitol complex) just before noon.

Credit: WXIA

Credit: WXIA

Senator Raphael Warnock speaks at rally

Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, the Ebenezer Baptist Church pastor, spoke at Saturday's rally.

Warnock spoke at length about the funding standoff over ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, which has left a funding gap for agencies under DHS such as TSA (resulting in callouts and long security waits at airports), the Coast Guard and FEMA.

Democrats are aiming to gain concessions from Republicans on immigration enforcement through the standoff, and Senator Warnock said Saturday said he would "not vote to give ICE another single dime until they fix this situation."

"I've been on the floor of the Senate all week fighting Donald Trump's ICE and fighting the SAVE Act," Warnock said, referring to the voting bill endorsed by the president and conservatives that would, among other provisions, create a national voter ID requirement.

The Democrat returned to the subject of ICE, saying he was "afraid that a wannabe king, who is busy building himself and his billionaires a ballroom, intends to use ICE as his own private army to do his bidding to make him king. But he is not a king, this is our land, this belongs to 'We the People,' and these powers that he arrogates to himself, these buildings that he tries to put his name on, these things no more belong to him than that fake Nobel Peace Prize that he had somebody to give to him."

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