{"id":192272,"date":"2025-06-10T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=192272"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:40:28","slug":"newsom-says-president-trumps-militarization-of-los-angeles-is-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=192272","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Says “President Trump\u2019s Militarization of Los Angeles is Illegal.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles, CA…Governor Newsom and Attorney General Bonta are standing up all states by filing a lawsuit and request to block President Trump and the Department of Defense\u2019s illegal militarization of Los Angeles and the takeover of a California National Guard (Cal Guard) unit.\u00a0 The lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0motion<\/a>\u00a0for an emergency temporary restraining order are crucial steps in holding President Trump accountable for his unwarranted and illegal overstep and for putting our democracy and our safety at risk.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s why the federal takeover of the Cal Guard unit must be stopped:<\/p>\n

\"🚨\"The President\u2019s takeover was not just about California \u2014 this action puts EVERY state at risk.<\/p>\n

While the President\u2019s rhetoric is aimed at California, his order applies to every state in the country. On June 7, one day after the protests began, President Trump issued a\u00a0memorandum<\/a>\u00a0purporting to authorize the Department of Defense to call up 2,000 National Guard personnel into federal service for a period of 60 days, and declaring a “form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States\u201d and directing the Secretary of Defense to coordinate with state governors and the National Guard to commandeer state militias.<\/p>\n

This order was not specific to California and suggests that the President could assume control of any state militia.<\/p>\n

\"🚨\"The law the President cited to take over a state guard requires the Governor\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Constitution and the Title 10 authority the President invoked require that the Governor consent to federalization of the National Guard, which Governor Newsom was not given the opportunity to do prior to their deployment and which he confirmed he had not given shortly after their deployment. The President\u2019s unlawful order infringes on Governor Newsom\u2019s role as Commander-in-Chief of the California National Guard and violates the state\u2019s sovereign right to control and have available its National Guard in the absence of a lawful invocation of federal power.<\/p>\n

\"🚨\"There\u2019s no insurrection, no matter how many times Trump says the word out loud.<\/p>\n

The situation in Los Angeles didn\u2019t meet the criteria for federalization, which includes invasion by a foreign country, rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States, and being unable to execute federal laws. That is not the case in the Los Angeles area, where local and state law enforcement have remained vigilant and in control and able to subdue unlawful activity.<\/p>\n

\"🚨\"Local law enforcement had it handled, and the federal government wasn\u2019t equipped to step in.<\/p>\n

By the time the National Guard arrived on Sunday morning, the protests had dissipated thanks to local law enforcement, and the streets were quiet. The President\u2019s Actions and the military presence actually inflamed the very protest and violence it was supposedly meant to suppress. The introduction of a military presence on city streets has only led to larger crowds and more problems for law enforcement to solve.<\/p>\n

\"🚨\"Cal Guard has other things to do\u2026 like emergency response and drug interdiction.<\/p>\n

The federalization of the California National Guard deprives California of resources to protect itself and its citizens, including those working on drug interdiction at the border, and of critical responders in the event of a state of emergency \u2014 such as the January 2025 firestorm in Los Angeles, which Cal Guard responded to.<\/p>\n

\"🚨\"You can\u2019t threaten to arrest a Governor, just because you don\u2019t agree with them.<\/p>\n

We live in a democracy \u2014 and the President\u2019s actions and subsequent threats put it at risk. As Governor Newsom said, President Trump\u2019s actions here are \u201can unmistakable step towards authoritarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the Governor speak about the lawsuit\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles, CA…Governor Newsom and Attorney General Bonta are standing up all states by filing a lawsuit and request to block President Trump and the Department of Defense\u2019s illegal militarization of Los Angeles and the takeover of a California National Guard (Cal Guard) unit.\u00a0 The lawsuit\u00a0and\u00a0motion\u00a0for an emergency temporary restraining order are crucial steps in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Newsom25.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192273,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192272\/revisions\/192273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}