US EditionCalifornia sues Trump over National Guard deployment to Los Angeles
- On Sunday, demonstrators took over downtown Los Angeles streets, torching cars and stores, while law enforcement used tear gas and rubber bullets.
- The protests followed immigration raids that detained over 160 migrants and arrests of illegal migrants and gang members, triggering escalating tensions.
- Authorities arrested at least 56 people over two days amid isolated violence, including the torching of six Waymo vehicles, while most protesters remained peaceful.
- President Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops and about 700 Marines into Los Angeles, marking the first federalization of the Guard over a governor's head since 1965.
- California Governor Newsom condemned the federal deployment as unlawful and announced a lawsuit claiming it violates state sovereignty and fuels unrest.
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Trump Bends Military’s Role
New York Times: “Since taking office in January, Mr. Trump has, step by step, expanded domestic use of the military, testing the legal and political limits on involving troops trained to fight foreign wars in roles traditionally carried out by the local police or Border Patrol.” “There are now more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than serving in Syria and Iraq, a fact the chief Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, promoted on social media on We…
MidPoint's Talk Back Town Hall
MidPoint was joined by Pulitzer prize-winning columnist and local newshound, Dan Ruth, for our quarterly Talk Back Town Hall where we open up the phone lines and invite our listeners to discuss whatever they want to discuss. Not surprisingly, today, the conversations largely focused on the events in Los Angeles where the Trump Administration has federalized the National Guard over the objections of California Governor Gavin Newsom and under dubi…
Massive political strife following the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles. Around 2000 soldiers and 700 Marines are supposed to provide peace and quiet.
Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN There’s a growing sense of widespread misunderstanding about the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive deportations and military deployments underlying the scenes in Los Angeles. The argument goes that people really want to deport undocumented immigrants. And that means they have no sympathy for the protesters and won’t care if Trump takes extraordinary measures—namely, calling up the National Guard without …
Gavin Newsom is having his social media moment
“Fuck around” and “find out,” read a TikTok post that followed a screenshot announcing that California is suing President Donald Trump for deploying the National Guard to the streets of Los Angeles. But the post wasn’t shared by a typical meme account—it came from California Gov. Gavin Newsom. “I damn near fell over when I realized this was Gov. Newsom’s page,” one user commented. Since Friday, demonstrations have erupted across Los Angeles in p…
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