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Judge blocks additional citizenship provisions in latest setback to Trump’s election executive order – The Seattle Times
Voting booths are set up at a polling place in Newtown, Pa, April 23, 2024. (Matt Rourke / The Associated Press, file)Judge blocks additional citizenship provisions in latest setback to Trump’s election executive order
Jan. 30, 2026 at 4:59 pm
By TOM VERDIN, The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked certain federal agencies from requesting citizenship status when distributing voter registration forms, the latest blow to a wide-ranging executive order on elections President Donald Trump signed last year.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington ruled that the Constitution’s separation of powers, giving states and to an extent Congress authority over setting election rules, are at the heart of the case.
“Put simply, our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures,” wrote the judge, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton.
Specifically, Kollar-Kotelly permanently blocked two provisions of the executive order that sought to impose proof-of-citizenship rules.
Her decision said agencies will not be allowed to “assess citizenship” before providing a federal voter registration form to people enrolling in public assistance programs. It also said the Secretary of Defense cannot require documentary proof of citizenship when military personnel register to vote or request ballots.
“Our democracy works best when all Americans can participate, including members of our military and their families living overseas. Today’s ruling removes a very real threat to the freedom to vote for overseas military families and upholds the separation of powers,” said Danielle Lang, a voting rights expert with the Campaign Legal Center, which is representing plaintiffs in the case.
The White House said Trump’s executive order was intended to ensure “election security” and said Friday’s ruling would not be the last word.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
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Hours after ABC News ran a story about a Minnesota toy store, ICE agents arrived at their door – The Seattle Times
Snow covers the sign at Mischief Toy Store on Grand Avenue as heavy, wet snow creates its own mischief in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Oct 20, 2020. (John Autey / Pioneer Press / TNS)Hours after ABC News ran a story about a Minnesota toy store, ICE agents arrived at their door
Jan. 19, 2026 at 5:41 pm
Snow covers the sign at Mischief Toy Store on Grand Avenue as heavy, wet snow creates its own mischief in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Oct 20, 2020. (John Autey/Pioneer Press/TNS)
By Ross Raihala, Pioneer Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — At 1 p.m. Friday, ABC News aired an interview with Abigail Adelsheim-Marshall, who owns St. Paul’s Mischief Toy Store with her parents Dan Marshall and Millie Adelsheim. She discussed the store’s decision to distribute free whistles that citizens have been using to alert neighbors of the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
“She delivered a very strident anti-ICE message, which we’re incredibly proud of,” said Dan Marshall. “Three hours later, two plainclothes ICE agents came into our store and served us with a Notice of Inspection.”
Related Federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota
- Minnesota and the Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop the immigration crackdown
- Minnesota protesters, agents repeatedly square off while prosecutors quit after Renee Good’s death
- Allegations of racial profiling of US citizens on the rise as ICE surge expands in Minnesota
The agents were asking for I-9 documents — which prove people are legal to work in this country — from the store’s employees. Marshall said the store has been audited for various things in the past, but this was different. For starters, the notice listed the store by its name, rather than its legal name Mischief LLC, which has been used in every other government document the store has received. Also, Marshall said, he was alerted to previous audits by mail, not by in-person agents.
“In 27 years of being retailers in St. Paul, we’ve never been audited for this,” he said. “We have five part-time employees and three owners. So tell me why they want to waste time on five part-time employees. But here we are.”
Representatives for DHS and ICE did not respond to a request for comment.
“It’s traumatizing to see my neighbors being terrorized. It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen in my life. But I’m also feeling defiant. This is an attempt to silence us and it’s going to do the opposite.” — Dan Marshall, co-owner of Mischief Toy Store
The owners of Mischief Toy Store have been outspoken in opposition to both ICE and President Trump. In April, the store joined a lawsuit with a handful of other retailers and manufacturers against the U.S. government in an effort to roll back international tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
Marshall’s daughter Ada Adelsheim was working when the ICE agents arrived. They flashed IDs, but Adelsheim didn’t take a photo of them. The agents left behind paperwork for the store to complete. The store’s lawyer, who specializes in small business legal issues, told Marshall numerous immigrant-owned businesses have also been hit with this audit.
Editor’s Note: The featured image at the top is from WP AI. –DrWeb
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hours after ABC News ran a story about a Minnesota toy store, ICE agents arrived at their door | The Seattle Times
#ABC #ABCNews #AbigailAdelsheimMarshall #Audit #GrandAvenue #ICE #ICEAgents #Inspection #Minnesota #MischiefToyStore #Owner #PioneerPress #RossRaihala #SafetyDevice #Story #TheSeattleTimes #ToyStore #Whistles -
Hours after ABC News ran a story about a Minnesota toy store, ICE agents arrived at their door – The Seattle Times
Snow covers the sign at Mischief Toy Store on Grand Avenue as heavy, wet snow creates its own mischief in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Oct 20, 2020. (John Autey / Pioneer Press / TNS)Hours after ABC News ran a story about a Minnesota toy store, ICE agents arrived at their door
Jan. 19, 2026 at 5:41 pm
Snow covers the sign at Mischief Toy Store on Grand Avenue as heavy, wet snow creates its own mischief in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Oct 20, 2020. (John Autey/Pioneer Press/TNS)
By Ross Raihala, Pioneer Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — At 1 p.m. Friday, ABC News aired an interview with Abigail Adelsheim-Marshall, who owns St. Paul’s Mischief Toy Store with her parents Dan Marshall and Millie Adelsheim. She discussed the store’s decision to distribute free whistles that citizens have been using to alert neighbors of the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
“She delivered a very strident anti-ICE message, which we’re incredibly proud of,” said Dan Marshall. “Three hours later, two plainclothes ICE agents came into our store and served us with a Notice of Inspection.”
Related Federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota
- Minnesota and the Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop the immigration crackdown
- Minnesota protesters, agents repeatedly square off while prosecutors quit after Renee Good’s death
- Allegations of racial profiling of US citizens on the rise as ICE surge expands in Minnesota
The agents were asking for I-9 documents — which prove people are legal to work in this country — from the store’s employees. Marshall said the store has been audited for various things in the past, but this was different. For starters, the notice listed the store by its name, rather than its legal name Mischief LLC, which has been used in every other government document the store has received. Also, Marshall said, he was alerted to previous audits by mail, not by in-person agents.
“In 27 years of being retailers in St. Paul, we’ve never been audited for this,” he said. “We have five part-time employees and three owners. So tell me why they want to waste time on five part-time employees. But here we are.”
Representatives for DHS and ICE did not respond to a request for comment.
“It’s traumatizing to see my neighbors being terrorized. It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen in my life. But I’m also feeling defiant. This is an attempt to silence us and it’s going to do the opposite.” — Dan Marshall, co-owner of Mischief Toy Store
The owners of Mischief Toy Store have been outspoken in opposition to both ICE and President Trump. In April, the store joined a lawsuit with a handful of other retailers and manufacturers against the U.S. government in an effort to roll back international tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
Marshall’s daughter Ada Adelsheim was working when the ICE agents arrived. They flashed IDs, but Adelsheim didn’t take a photo of them. The agents left behind paperwork for the store to complete. The store’s lawyer, who specializes in small business legal issues, told Marshall numerous immigrant-owned businesses have also been hit with this audit.
Editor’s Note: The featured image at the top is from WP AI. –DrWeb
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Hours after ABC News ran a story about a Minnesota toy store, ICE agents arrived at their door | The Seattle Times
#ABC #ABCNews #AbigailAdelsheimMarshall #Audit #GrandAvenue #ICE #ICEAgents #Inspection #Minnesota #MischiefToyStore #Owner #PioneerPress #RossRaihala #SafetyDevice #Story #TheSeattleTimes #ToyStore #Whistles -
How Seattle, King County libraries get books into your hands
How Seattle, King County libraries get books into your hands
Nov. 2, 2025 at 6:00 am, Updated Nov. 2, 2025 at 6:01 am
Tony Lauricella, automated materials handling system lead, dumps a tote of books into a singulator to be sorted at Seattle Public Library’s Maintenance and Operations Center in Georgetown on Sept. 11. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times)
1 of 11 | Tony Lauricella, automated materials handling system lead, dumps a tote of books into a singulator to be sorted at Seattle Public Library’s Maintenance and Operations Center in Georgetown on Sept. 11. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times)
By Sara Jean Green, Seattle Times staff reporter
Under a pitch-black sky, Jason Hayes and Chris Little loaded stacks of blue storage totes into box trucks parked outside a Georgetown warehouse that, up until a few years ago, housed luxury sports cars.
On this particular Tuesday, Hayes would drive to Rainier Beach, Columbia City, Beacon Hill and Leschi while Little made stops downtown and at seven sites in the northeast part of the city.
Hayes manages the Seattle Public Library’s materials distribution and fleet services, coordinating drivers who fan out every day to deliver totes filled with books to 26 library branches. Little, a library driver for 28 years, said the “bread-and-butter” of his job is the mobile library, the unofficial 27th branch that holds pop-ups at Seattle Housing Authority buildings and housing complexes for seniors and people with disabilities.
“It’s getting the library to people who can’t get out,” he said. “‘It’s like Christmas once a month’ — that’s what people literally say.”
Hayes and Little are two of the 18 library employees who work out of the Maintenance and Operations Center, a nearly 20,000-square-foot industrial warehouse on Corson Avenue South. Known as the MOC, it serves as the Seattle Public Library’s hidden hub, where an average of 10,000 books a day begin their journeys across the city, with 60% of them destined to fill online holds and the remainder returning to their home branches.
In an industrial park 25 miles to the east, off Interstate 90 in the tiny, unincorporated community of Preston, the King County Library System’s distribution center handles three times the daily volume of books processed through Seattle’s central sorter and serves 50 branches across a vast geography, from Skykomish to Algona.
A borrowing agreement between the Seattle and King County library systems — first signed in 1943 — meansresidents can borrow from both.
For library patrons, it can seem as if books magically appear on hold shelves in their neighborhood branches. But the infrastructure, technology and logistics involved in moving books — along with CDs, DVDs and mobile Wi-Fi hot spots — reflects the value placed on public libraries and is indicative of the Seattle area’s literary culture. The two libraries’ digital collections of audiobooks and e-books are attracting even more readers who prefer listening and scrolling to turning pages.
An abundance of books — and e-books
The Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System are beloved institutions with a combined collection of 6.8 million copies of physical and digital books. E-books and audiobooks are gaining in popularity but have yet to surpass demand for bound and printed copies. Source: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/GWj9m/
Seattle Public Library, King County Library System (Fiona Martin / The Seattle Times)
The two library systems are part of a larger ecosystem, said Stesha Brandon, Seattle Public Library’s literature and humanities program manager. Our region boasts numerous local authors and “a committed community of readers” who shop at local bookstores, attend readings, take part in programming, use libraries and support library levies, she said.
“It really is the kind of place where we kind of breathe literature,” Brandon said. “Stories are part of our DNA. Maybe some cities feel it more through music or sports or other things, but I think here in Seattle, we definitely feel it through books.”
Continue/Read Original Article: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/how-seattle-king-county-libraries-get-books-into-your-hands/
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Pro-#Palestinian activists clash with police at Seattle Microsoft event
from #TheSeattleTimes
May 19, 2025 at 12:42 pm
Updated May 19, 2025 at 4:32 pm"Seattle police arrested one demonstrator after a crowd of dozens tried to push into the #Seattle Convention Center, where hundreds had gathered for #Microsoft Build. Several demonstrators were doused with pepper spray.
Demonstrators ultimately left the convention center at 1:30 p.m., returning to downtown Seattle’s Westlake Park where they had rallied earlier in the day."
#NoTechForApartheid
#FoodAsWeapon
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
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#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
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@harryooman @lovelylovely @GottaLaff @rabbijill
Harry all I see is a sea of activated and demonized MAGA-Phyllis Schlafly sycophants: a massive boobs/minus brains mob that later elected then worshipped (THE quite manly and agro) Maggot Marge. Just seeing that angry smug Neanderthal face induces a speedy need for Pepto Bismal.
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/decorum-is-not-in-their-vocabulary/