Lawyers for President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are set to face off Monday to find out whether or not the president violated a 147-year-old regulation when he deployed the National Guard to quell protests over immigration raids in Los Angeles – in opposition to the needs of the Democratic governor. In June, as tons of of individuals gathered in Los Angeles to protest a string of immigration raids that focused workplaces and left dozens of individuals detained or deported, the president federalized and deployed 4,000 National Guard members over the objection of Newsom and native officers, who stated the deployment would solely trigger additional chaos.
Trump invoked a hardly ever used regulation that permits the president to federalize the National Guard throughout occasions of precise or threatened riot or invasion, or when common forces can’t implement US legal guidelines. The president’s attorneys stated in a court docket submitting that the duties of the National Guard troops and a handful of Marines additionally dispatched have been narrowly circumscribed: They have been dispatched solely to guard federal property and personnel, and so they didn’t have interaction in any regulation enforcement actions.
Newsom filed a lawsuit June 9 in opposition to Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying they violated the Posse Comitatus Act and the tenth Amendment. Trump’s attorneys say the act, which prevents the usage of the army for implementing legal guidelines, doesn’t present a mechanism for a civil lawsuit.
But Newsom’s attorneys have argued the president illegally made an “unprecedented power grab” – and even violated the Constitution – by overruling native authorities to ship within the army.
The president and Hegseth “have overstepped the bounds of law and are intent on going as far as they can to use the military in unprecedented, unlawful ways,” Newsom’s attorneys say in a criticism.
CNN’s Boris Sanchez speaks with former deputy Homeland Security Secretary within the first Trump administration Ken Cuccinelli. #CNN #News
