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Newsom, Bonta ask SCOTUS to stop Trump's troop deployments
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California National Guard soldiers do riot and crowd control training in June at a facility in Los Alamitos. | Photo courtesy of Sgt. Jon Soucy/National Guard
“The Trump Administration is asking the Supreme Court to grant it unprecedented and unlimited power to deploy the military into American cities — power it has made clear that it fully intends to abuse,” Bonta said in a statement. “Trump wants an army that serves a King, but in America, in our democracy, our military does not police the people. California has been ground zero for the Trump Administration’s militarization of American streets. In the four months since troops were first deployed to Los Angeles, we’ve seen the President abandon any attempt to justify their continued presence in our state, taking a near limitless view of executive power. I urge the Supreme Court to reject the President’s latest bid to defy our constitutional norms
'No Kings' rallies take place across LA, Orange counties
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were just Trump’s first step to completely transform the role of the military in American society by deploying the U.S. military against its own civilians. We won’t stand for it and we implore the courts to affirm states’ sovereign rights to handle any public safety matters at home.” “The facts haven’t changed. Amidst ongoing violent riots and lawlessness, that local leaders like (Illinois Gov. JB) Pritzker have refused to step in to quell, President Trump has exercised his lawful authority to protect federal officers and assets," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in an email to HeySoCal.com. "President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities." Bonta blasted the administration for militarizing law enforcement.
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By Joe Taglieri ov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta submitted a court filing Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Illinois lawsuit against the Trump administration's National Guard troop deployment to assist with immigration enforcement. Newsom and Bonta's amicus brief details California's recent experience with the expanding federal mission for the National Guard. Since the June 7 deployment of soldiers to Los Angeles, the federal government ordered hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago and Portland, Oregon. The Trump administration has extended its federalization of the California National Guard to at least February. According to Newsom's office, the administration has asserted that federalized troops should engage in law enforcement without judicial oversight, a stance that defies established legal norms. Trump's troop policy sidelines the courts, flouts congressional limitations, encroaches on state sovereignty and would pave the way for "an alarming expansion of federal power," California officials contend. “Our message to the courts is clear — Trump is putting our members of the military on the frontlines of a completely unlawful activation against American communities," Newsom said in a statement. "The federal government’s actions in Los Angeles earlier this summer
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and grab power he does not have.” At Trump's behest, Department of Defense Secretary Hegseth transferred 4,000 members of the California National Guard to federal control to serve in a civilian law enforcement role in Los Angeles and Southern California communities. California sued to stop the federalization. The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Wednesday in the Trump administration's appeal to the trial judge’s order that blocked the troop federalization and deployment. Newsom's office noted falling crime rates, contrary to Trump administration assertions that troop deployments are needed to quell lawlessness. According to the Major
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housands of people gathered in downtown Los Angeles Saturday for the largest of several "No Kings Day" demonstrations against the Trump administration across Los Angeles and Orange counties. More than a dozen protests took place in the Southland as part of a nationwide day of action. The demonstration in downtown Los Angeles began around 2 p.m. Saturday, and featured a march down a nearly two-mile stretch of Spring Street and a rally outside City Hall and Gloria Molina Grand Park. Speakers were expected to include podcaster and MSNow (formerly MSNBC) contributor Brian Tyler Cohen, Assemblyman Issac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, and ex-Trump staffer Jessica Denson. Traffic was severely impacted in the area, with a section of Spring Street closed and motorists advised to avoid the Civic Center area. Alameda Street between Aliso and Temple streets was also closed, along with a handful of off-ramps from the Hollywood (101) Freeway, and bus routes were also being detoured. The L.A. protest was organized by 50501 SoCal and Service Employees International Union Local 721, in partnership with Black Lives Matter Grassroots - Los Angeles, the Removal Coalition, Working Families Party, Black Women for Wellness, Clergy Laity See Protests Page 32
United for Economic Justice, the TransLatin@ Coalition, Democracy Action Network and the Human Liberation Coalition, among others. SoCal 50501 is the Los Angeles chapter of 50501, which bills itself as "a peaceful, decentralized grassroots political movement with a mission to uphold democracy and constitutional governance." Its name stems from "50 protests. 50 states. 1 Movement." The day's protests were peaceful but as darkness fell downtown, a small group of people who demonstrated outside the federal detention center at Alameda and Temple streets refused to leave even after the Los Angeles Police Department ordered them to disperse twice. A group of about two dozen people could be seen on broadcast video as officers first pushed them away from the detention center into Chinatown, then backed off to encourage them to disperse. LAPD Officer Drake Madison told City News Service some "projectiles" were initially thrown. ABC7 reported at least one person was arrested. Saturday's events were a follow up to the first "No Kings Day," held on June 14, which had more than 5 million people who participated nationwide, according to organizers. "America has no kings and working Americans will not stand by as a wannabe dictator wages war on our