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California attorney general sues Trump

2025-06-10 16:15:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

California attorney general sues Trump

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday for deploying hundreds of National Guard members to Los Angeles over the weekend.

The lawsuit seeks a court order ruling that President Donald Trump's move to send 2,000 members of the state's National Guard on Saturday in response to protests against the administration's immigration actions without a request from California Governor Gavin Newsom was "unlawful" and should be reversed.

Bonta said in a statement that Trump's order "violates Governor Newsom's role as Commander-in-Chief of the California National Guard and violates the state's sovereign right to control and have its National Guard available in the absence of a lawful call of federal power."

Bonta argued in the lawsuit that the Department of Defense did not communicate directly with the governor's office regarding any planned activation and deployment of California National Guard members and that it did not seek approval to use the National Guard to protect federal agents and federal property.

Contacted for comment Monday evening, a Defense Department spokesman said it is Pentagon policy not to comment on pending or ongoing lawsuits.

"At no time during the last three days has there been any rebellion or uprising," the lawsuit states.

At a press conference on Monday before filing the lawsuit, Bonta accused Trump of "trying to cause chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political purposes."

He told reporters that the law Trump used to activate the guard had only been used once before, when President Richard Nixon used it in 1970 to activate the guard to deliver mail during a postal strike. He also said it was the first time the guard had been activated without the consent of a governor since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson deployed troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators.

The White House had claimed the measure was necessary to combat "lawlessness that has been allowed to fester" in Los Angeles, referring to clashes and confrontations between federal agents conducting immigration raids and protesters in recent days./ CNA





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