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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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 …
Trump’s domestic deployment of US armed forces is an alarming abuse of power and affront to democracy - CommonWealth Beacon
ON SATURDAY, President Trump issued a memorandum authorizing a domestic deployment of the US armed forces. Although widely reported as an order to federalize National Guard troops to counter protests in California, the order is far broader, also authorizing the secretary of defense to use federal active-duty military forces. The order is not limited to California: it has no geographic restrictions and no expiration date. Since then, the presid…
‘I can be stronger’: Trump says why his second term is different from the first
In an interview with The New York Post’s Pod Force One, President Trump explained why he “can be stronger on an attack on Los Angeles” in his second term compared to his first. Trump also said he told Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, he planned to deploy National Guard troops before doing so.
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