NO INVASION: A three judge panel from a federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration may not invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal immigrants without due process which has been used as a pillar of the deportation campaign. 

  The administration had claimed that members of the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang were part of an “invasion” of the United States. The court said they couldn’t see an invasion and the case is likely headed to the Supreme Court.

CRACKDOWN: On the same day that a federal judge ruled President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles was illegal, the President suggested that a crackdown on crime in Chicago is coming. “We’re going in,” he told reporters yesterday without offering further details.

  It’s not just crime. The administration is working up plans to deploy hundreds of homeland security officers to the city for immigration enforcement. 

  That judge in San Francisco ruled that Trump’s deployment of 5,000 National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles violated the law against use of the military for domestic law enforcement. Judge Charles Breyer made the ruling two months after the civil disturbances set off by federal roundups of illegal immigrants. 

  Breyer wrote that events in Los Angeles did not meet the threshold for military action. “There were indeed protests in Los Angeles, and some individuals engaged in violence,” Breyer wrote. “Yet there was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law.”

THE REGIME:

— The President confirmed that the US blew up a boat in the Caribbean believed to have been loaded with drugs carrying 11 members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang. It was an unusual use of military force for drug enforcement.

— President Trump yesterday announced that he’s moving the US Space Command from Colorado to Alabama in part because he holds a grudge against Colorado for voting against him in three presidential elections.

  Colorado has mail-in voting, one of Trump’s big gripes. “When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections, because that’s what that means. So that played a big factor also,” he said.

  Space command governs space-related operations for all branches of the military. 

— Lawyers for Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook fired back in court yesterday against President Trump’s attempt to fire her on the claim that she falsified mortgage documents. Trump claims he’s firing Cook “for cause” although she has not been formally accused or officially found to have done anything wrong.

  Cook’s lawyers describe the allegations as “unsubstantiated, untested and unaddressed” while pointing out that she filed the two mortgage applications in question before she was appointed to the Federal Reserve Board.  They wrote in their filing, “Setting aside the fact that Governor Cook did not ever commit mortgage fraud, any such pre-office offense plainly would not have been ‘so infamous a nature as to render the offender unfit to execute any public franchise.” 

  President Trump is clearly trying to take control of the Federal Reserve with his own appointees who would bow to his demands for lower interest rates.

— More than 85 US  and international scientists condemned the Trump administration report that claims the threat of climate change is overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations, and data selected to fit the president’s denial of climate change.

  In particular, the Trump administration had downplayed the effects of carbon fuel exhausts in warming the planet.  

  “No one should doubt that human-caused climate change is real, is already producing potentially dangerous impacts, and that humanity is on track for a geologically enormous amount of warming,” the scientists wrote. 

— More than 1,000 current and former employees of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote a letter to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saying that his leadership has “put the health of all Americans at risk” and demanding his resignation.

MILITARY MIGHT: China’s Xi Jinping threw a massive military parade while hosting Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. The parade … which would have been the envy of Donald Trump … featured the latest tanks, missiles, drones and thousands of goose stepping troops.

  Trump accused the three leaders of conspiring against the US.

IN VOGUE: Anna Wintour, the fashion titan and editor of Vogue who inspired the character of the demanding and dismissive boss in “The Devil Wears Prada,” has announced that her successor is 39-year old Chloe Malle, the editor of Vogue’s website and co-host of its podcast.

  It’s a familiar name. She’s the daughter of actor Candace Bergen and the late director Louis Malle.

  The 75-year-old Wintour is not retiring, which calls to question how much independence Malle will have. Wintour will still be the company’s chief content officer and Malle’s direct supervisor, overseeing all 28 international editions of Vogue.

  A further clue … the Prada devil isn’t moving out of her office.

THE OBIT PAGE:  Mark Knoller,  the former White House radio correspondent for CBS News who kept an encyclopedic font of information about presidents including how many times they played golf to whether they hated broccoli or declared that they “will not rest” until finishing the job for the American people, died Saturday in Washington over the weekend. He was 73.

  The bearded Knoller was an oversized man with a history of diabetes who was beloved in the White House press corps. He was tough with the powerful and generous sharing his voluminous knowledge with other reporters about how many times a president had been to Camp David, how many vacation days he’d taken, or the length of his last press conference. Knoller was described as a presidential Google in human form.

BELOW THE FOLD:  The so-called “missing minute” of the Jeffrey Epstein jailhouse video has been released, dispelling conspiracy theories that he was murdered, although conspiracy theories have a life of their own.

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