California asks judge to quickly block Trump troop deployments to LA

California Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Tuesday asked a national justice to rapidly artifact the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard members and Marines to Los Angeles to quell protests against immigration raids.

State Attorney General Rob Bonta asked the judge to assistance a impermanent restraining bid blocking President Donald Trump's actions by 1 p.m. PT successful bid to "prevent contiguous and irreparable harm to Plaintiffs."

Without that accelerated relief, Trump's deployment of the subject and the National Guard poses "imminent harm to State Sovereignty, deprives the State of captious resources, escalates tensions and promotes (rather than quells) civilian unrest," Bonta told Judge Charles Breyer successful U.S. District Court successful San Francisco.

"Sending trained warfighters onto the streets is unprecedented and threatens the precise halfway of our democracy," Newsom, a Democrat, said successful a connection aboriginal Tuesday.

"Donald Trump is behaving similar a tyrant, not a President," the politician said. "We inquire the tribunal to instantly artifact these unlawful actions."

Trump earlier Tuesday defended his determination to authorize the deployment of 4,000 federalized members of the California National Guard and astir 700 Marines to Los Angeles.

"Look, if we didn't get progressive close now, Los Angeles would beryllium burning conscionable similar it was burning a fig of months ago, with each the houses that were lost," Trump told reporters successful the Oval Office.

"Los Angeles close present would beryllium connected fire, and we person it successful large shape," helium claimed.

Newsom sued Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon connected Monday, arguing that the actions taken by the national authorities are stoking much civilian unrest.

The suit alleges that Trump broke the instrumentality erstwhile helium federalized the California National Guard without the governor's consent oregon input, and that the determination was unwarranted.

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