California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that he will sue President Donald Trump for his deployment of the National Guard to deal with protests over federal immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles.
Trump “flamed the fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard,” Newsom said in a social media post.
“The order he signed doesn’t just apply to CA,” Newsom wrote in the post on X. “It will allow him to go into ANY STATE and do the same thing.
“We’re suing him.”
Meanwhile on Monday, federal prosecutors charged labor leader David Huerta with felony conspiracy to impede an officer. Huerta, president of SEUI California, was arrested on Friday during a protest in L.A. He is due to appear in federal court later Monday,
