California Attorney General Rob Bonta says the state's sovereignty was ''trampled'' by President Donald Trump when he ordered National Guard troops to the immigration protests in Los Angeles.
Bonta announced plans Monday to sue the Trump administration. He said the lawsuit would ask the court ''to set aside the president's unlawful action federalizing the California National Guard.''
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, told MSNBC that he also plans to file suit Monday against the Trump administration to roll back the National Guard deployment, which he called ''an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act.'' This appears to be the first time in decades that a state's National Guard was activated without a request from its governor.
Trump has cited a legal provision that allows him to mobilize federal service members when there is ''a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.'' Roughly 1,000 National Guard members arrived in the city by Monday, and Trump said he had authorized 2,000 members to deploy if needed.
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Photojournalist remains hospitalized after being shot by non-lethal round
The photojournalist Nick Stern was covering a protest in Paramount on Saturday night when he felt a sharp pain in his right thigh – the result, he later realized, of a non-lethal round fired by officers into the crowd.
''I thought it was a live round because of the sheer intensity of the pain,'' Stern told the AP. ''Then I passed out from the pain.''