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DOJ official fact-checks California Democrat after he falsely claims ICE mask ban is in effect
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A Department of Justice official took a jab at a California state senator on Friday after the lawmaker, a Democrat running to succeed retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., erroneously claimed his state began enforcing a mask ban against federal immigration officers.
Jesus Osete, the No. 2 official in the DOJ Civil Rights Division, pointed out that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration agreed in court to temporarily hold off on enforcing the ban while a lawsuit over it plays out.
Osete’s remark came in response to San Francisco-based state Sen. Scott Wiener, who posted a video Thursday boasting that the ban was active.
“That’s not what @CAgovernor told a federal judge, my man,” Osete wrote on X.
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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The Trump administration sued California in November, arguing that two bills, including the No Secret Police Act introduced by Wiener, violated the Constitution’s supremacy clause, which says that when federal and state laws conflict with one another, federal laws win out.
U.S. federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detain immigrants and asylum seekers reporting for immigration court proceedings in an immigration court in New York, N.Y., July 24, 2025. (Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
The No Secret Police Act attempted to bar ICE officers from wearing masks in certain circumstances after a series of high-profile immigration raids in the state that involved some officers fully concealing their faces with ski masks.
As part of the lawsuit, California officials agreed in December to hold off on enforcing the mask ban against ICE agents until the court could hear arguments in the case.
Wiener claimed the mask ban went into effect on Jan. 1 in a video he shared online, contradicting what California’s attorneys told the court.
NEWSOM ON COURTROOM COLLISION COURSE WITH TRUMP OVER ICE MASK BAN
State Sen. Scott Wiener of California (California Sen. Scott Wiener)
“It’s now illegal for ICE and other law enforcement to cover their faces in the state of California. Starting today, my new anti-masking law goes into effect,” Wiener said.
A federal judge is weighing whether to grant the Trump administration’s request for a preliminary injunction against the mask ban. But the briefing schedule stretches through next week, and a hearing on the matter is set for Jan. 12.
The judge could make a decision soon after the hearing, and if he were to rule in favor of California, the state could begin enforcing its ban at that point.
Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney in central California, also chided Wiener for his claim that the state law was enforceable.
“This isn’t true. California has no authority to regulate federal agents. This state law violates the federal Supremacy Clause. … California has agreed to put the law on hold and not enforce its unconstitutional mask ban, which is designed to allow radical leftists to dox federal agents enforcing immigration laws,” Essayli said.
Wiener doubled down on his remarks in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying Essayli was a “clueless Trump Administration lackey” making a “meaningless royal decree.”
“While the agents of the state did agree to hold off on enforcing the law until the injunction hearing, the No Secret Police Act is still very much in effect, and ICE agents who appear masked in California are still subject to civil suits for violating the laws of our state,” Wiener said.
California attorneys have been fighting the lawsuit, arguing in court papers that “armed, masked individuals” carried out arrests of alleged illegal immigrants and, in doing so, “caused terror throughout California, with the public unsure whether they were interacting with legitimate law enforcement or impostors.”
The Trump administration’s lawsuit “ignores [the] careful balance of power between the federal and state governments, seeking to invalidate two California laws. … Each law exercises the State’s historic and long-established police power,” state attorneys wrote.
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IDAHO FALLS — Temperatures in the 80s and dry conditions are in store for east Idaho this week.
That’s the outlook from the National Weather Service in Pocatello. Meteorologist Dan Valle tells EastIdahoNews.com daytime temperatures will be in the 80s most of the week.
“There is a couple days where it’s warmer — we’ll probably hit 90 (degrees),” Valle says. “Those days will be Tuesday, and we’ll come close on Friday.”
No rain or thunderstorms are expected as of Sunday afternoon.
Valle says Monday is one of the rare occasions when there will be no wind, but it will pick up again on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In the Pocatello area, wind speeds will approach advisory levels, with gusts between 35 and 45 mph.
“Down towards Burley, it could be a little stronger in the 40 to 50 mph range,” he says.
Breezy conditions will continue on Thursday and Friday.
For the latest weather conditions and a complete seven-day forecast in your community, click here.
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Arguing Kalshi is taking hundreds of millions of dollars in wagers on the World Cup and the NBA and Stanley Cup finals, the Nevada Gaming Control Board Friday asked a district court to hold the prediction market operator in contempt, arguing it hasn’t complied with a May 18 judicial order against offering sports betting in the state.
Filed with the First Judicial District Court for the State of Nevada, the filing accuses Kalshi of not geofencing its operations as required, so that “it does not offer or facilitate the offering of any sports-, election-, or entertainment-related event contracts” to anyone located in Nevada.
“Kalshi’s stubborn refusal to comply with the preliminary injunction is causing severe and ongoing harm to Nevada, its finances, and its citizens,” the court filing said. “Every day, Kalshi takes in hundreds of millions in wagers on such events as the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup Finals and FIFA World Cup. At the same time, Kalshi is severely harming the gaming industry because it refuses to follow the same rules as its licensed sportsbook competitors who actually geofence. This is an intolerable state of affairs. In light of the Board’s investigation and Kalshi’s own admissions that establish its violation of the court order, the court shall hold Kalshi in contempt. Kalshi will never get the message otherwise.”
The Board requested the court to enter a finding of contempt and to impose significant monetary penalties for violation of the court order — either a “disgorgement of all ill-gotten gains” or a sanction of $120,000 a day.
“The court has required Kalshi to stop offering covered event contracts in Nevada,” Board Chair Mike Dreitzer said in a statement. “We will continue to vigorously enforce Nevada law to safeguard gaming in our state.”
In its filing, The Board said that Kalshi by its own admission has spent $190,000 on what regulators referred to as a “homegrown solution that relies only on internet protocol geofencing solutions” that regulators called “notoriously unreliable” for determining user’s locations. The Board accuses Kalshi of being unwilling to use accurate commercial geofencing solutions.
“This is just more from the same old Kalshi playbook; delay, delay, delay,” the court filing said. “Rather than comply with the court’s order Kalshi has taken only a half-hearted and ineffective measure, apparently hoping that the court will deem its meager efforts good enough, so that it can continue profiting at the expense of the state and its citizens.”
The Board said investigators were able to purchase sports betting contracts on Kalshi’s app for NBA playoff games, MLB games, a boxing match, a tennis match, and a celebrity wedding.
The Board has taken action in recent months to halt the operations of other prediction markets in the state and has successfully restricted all unlicensed prediction markets that had been known to be operating in Nevada, Dreitzer said.
The Board considers the offering of sports event contracts, along with certain other event contracts to constitute wagering activity under state law, meaning they must be licensed.
“Nevada’s public policy, as expressed by the Legislature, is that the gaming industry is vitally important to the economy of the state and the general welfare of the inhabitants and therefore must be licensed, controlled, and assisted to protect the public health, safety, morals, good order, and general welfare of the inhabitants of the state,” Dreitzer said.
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