National Guard, California and Trump
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The 9th Circuit Court pauses ruling against Trump in National Guard case, allowing him to maintain control as protests loom.
Protests in Los Angeles continued into Thursday night as tensions died down across the West Coast ahead of thousands of anti-Trump demonstrations planned for Saturday — the “No Kings Day” event is set to take place coast-to-coast amid civil unrest nationwide.
Missouri has joined Texas in preemptively activating the state's National Guard ahead of the "No Kings" protests planned at about 2,000 sites across the nation on June 14 against President Donald Trump. Both Republican-led states followed Trump's lead after he tapped the California National Guard to respond to protests in Los Angeles.
She was downtown demonstrating on Friday. "My parents are migrants from El Salvador, and so it's really personal to me, because it's U.S. imperialism that impacted our community. ... No one chooses to leave their home.