California Nationwide Guard personnel stand outdoors the Edward R. Roybal federal constructing after their deployment by U.S. President Donald Trump, in response to protests in opposition to immigration sweeps, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 8, 2025.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday requested a federal decide to rapidly block the Trump administration’s deployment of Nationwide Guard members and Marines to Los Angeles to quell protests in opposition to immigration raids.
State Lawyer Normal Rob Bonta requested the decide to grant a brief restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s actions by 1 p.m. PT with a purpose to “stop instant and irreparable hurt to Plaintiffs.”
With out that quick aid, Trump’s deployment of the army and the Nationwide Guard poses “imminent hurt to State Sovereignty, deprives the State of important sources, escalates tensions and promotes (fairly than quells) civil unrest,” Bonta advised Decide Charles Breyer in U.S. District Court docket in San Francisco.
“Sending educated warfighters onto the streets is unprecedented and threatens the very core of our democracy,” Newsom, a Democrat, mentioned in a press release later Tuesday.
“Donald Trump is behaving like a tyrant, not a President,” the governor mentioned. “We ask the court docket to instantly block these illegal actions.”
Trump earlier Tuesday defended his determination to authorize the deployment of 4,000 federalized members of the California Nationwide Guard and about 700 Marines to Los Angeles.
“Look, if we did not get entangled proper now, Los Angeles can be burning identical to it was burning plenty of months in the past, with all the homes that had been misplaced,” Trump advised reporters within the Oval Workplace.
“Los Angeles proper now can be on fireplace, and we’ve got it in nice form,” he claimed.
Newsom sued Trump, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon on Monday, arguing that the actions taken by the federal authorities are stoking extra civil unrest.
The lawsuit alleges that Trump broke the legislation when he federalized the California Nationwide Guard with out the governor’s consent or enter, and that the transfer was unwarranted.
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