Trump, National Guard
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In announcing the lawsuit, Attorney General Rob Bonta called the president's move to federalize the National Guard an "infringement" on state sovereignty.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, a former Watergate prosecutor, will decide whether Trump had the legal authority to federalize 4,000 California National Guard troops.
Border czar Tom Homan struggled to explain a 2020 clip of President Donald Trump saying it wouldn’t be legal for the president to call in the National Guard without a request from a governor. In response to demonstrations against federal immigration raids that began in Los Angeles on Friday,
President Donald Trump used a speech at Fort Bragg ostensibly to recognize the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army to denounce the protesters in Los Angeles as a “foreign enemy” and declare his intention to “liberate” the city.