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Newsom requests Trump admin return National Guard control to California (www.newsweek.com)

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has formally requested Trump administration officials to rescind the order to deploy the National Guard and return control of the force to California, calling the initial order unlawful and "intentionally designed to inflame the situation."

"I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command," Newsom wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "We didn't have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they're actually needed. Rescind the order. Return control to California."

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

Trump is again violating the Constitution. he does not have Title 10 authority to federalize the National Guard for anything short of national emergencies. The Constitution assigns that responsibility to the governors of the states, not the President.

Trump’s repeated unconstitutional seizing of power should have had him forcibly removed from office many times over. That Congress has not performed their duty to the people and our Constitution is all the proof we need that a purge is required if we want to survive.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

“No” - president taco

[-] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

More like Yes but in two weeks

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'm sure if you just ask nicely the nazis will go away.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Build the state guard. Stop using the national guard.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Hell, deploy state guard to protect protestors.

[-] [email protected] 139 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah okay. Like a strongly worded letter is gonna do anything?

Gavin: Just fly to DC and physically smack Trump around. You're in way better shape than he is, you're guaranteed to win.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago

Strongly worded letters are all the current Dems are good at.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm assuming that he's just creating a paper trail for when things inevitably escalate. If this is all he's got, though, it's pretty weak.

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[-] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago

I have so much more faith in East LA to fight back than anyone in a position of power.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago

This is an example of somebody in a position of power fighting back. He may be a shitbag in general, but he is fighting back.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved.

Is an insane thing for the Governor to claim when ICE was snatching random people off the street.

Paramount had a huge problem when ICE just started grabbing people out of the front of a Home Depot for being brown. That triggered the public backlash which got the news coverage which lead to Trump trying to launch a Fallujah style invasion of LA.

The situation was fully fucked by lawless ICE officially kidnapping people well before Trump tried to ratchet tensions further.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

You're conflating two different problems. Yes, ICE kidnapping people was a problem before the national guard thing, but Newsom's words were specifically about a problem with the protests.

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[-] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago

I don't understand how Newsom can't just order the CA national guard to not follow unlawfully given orders.

I'm not a lawyer but the statute in the Constitution that is written into the executive order as the authorization for it literally says the national guard are under control of the state Governor.

Why can't Newsom give the guard orders and tell Trump to go fuck himself and see what happens? I guess at that point you'll have conflicting orders from federal and state but, in theory, the national guard are under command of the state Governor and he's their highest authority. So they should follow Newsom's orders.

Like I said IANAL so I'm sure I'm missing something but for fuck sake this is outrageous. We're rounding people up for not having a paper, they're not even hardened criminals. If this was hardcore enforcement of actual dangerous people that would be one thing. These are just innocent undocumented migrants trying to live the their lives same as the rest of us.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago

I don't remember the law or EO that made it so, but sometime after September 11th the President was granted the power to take command of the National Guard. That's not what the Constitution says? Throw it on the pile.

In practical terms, in any given situation where both are giving conflicting or even antagonistic orders, do you listen to the governor of your state or the President of the United States?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

It seems ignoring the constitution while continually & increasingly granting power to the federal government for more than a century may have had some consequences.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

I don’t understand how Newsom can’t just order the CA national guard to not follow unlawfully given orders

That would mean confronting Trump directly, and Newsom is a coward who doesn't really expect the Nat Guard to follow his orders over Trump's.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doesn’t the insurrection act allow the US president to take control of the national guard, even without a governor’s consent?

Hence the reason Trump keeps calling protestors “insurrectionists.”

(Not that I agree with Trump’s bullshit)

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

We are ruled by idiots.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

We're ruled by rich people who know exactly what they're doing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

bingo

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago

Trump:

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

When fascists said "states rights", they actually meant "localized tyranny". As in, the ability for them to impose their tyranny on whatever size jurisdiction they currently held.

Anyone who isn't a neoliberal cuck warned they would seize the opportunity to impose their beliefs on the whole country, or the entire planet, the moment the option became available to them, because they are criminally corrupt, sociopathic authoritarian megalomaniacs, and always have been.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Oh my gosh. We got him, guys.

As a Californian, I think our governor is such a douchebag.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Send state troopers after the national guard. Nothing matters anymore. Form a california militia, fuck all. Send a message to the gangs that they won't prosecute crimes against the national guard because this is self-defense.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

The national guard is the state's militia.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

The California National Guard is militia from the state of California, but it is not the state's militia. The state also has the California State Guard, which is exclusively under the authority of the governor.

Many (Most?) states have their own dedicated militia, as well as National Guard units.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

"I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command," Newsom wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

If it's unlawful, you don't need to ask. Just tell them to go home.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

He's giving Trump an off-ramp before escalation. Most politicians are better at politics than Trump is, they don't go straight to the nuclear option.

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