Trump wields little-used law to deploy National Guard to LA riots despite Gov. Newsoms protests: Unable to handle the task

President Trump has ordered the California National Guard to secure Los Angeles from the anti-ICE rioters, despite the vocal objections of Democratic Gov.Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass.It’s the first time in 60 years that the commander-in-chief deployed a state’s National Guard without the governor’s blessing, and members of the Trump administration are saying the move is justified because the protests represent a “violent insurrection” against the country.

“This is a violent insurrection,” White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted Saturday night.Vice President JD Vance also used the word in describing the riots: “Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America’s political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil,” he said on X.California Democrats seethed over the rare move from a US president.The last time the National Guard was federalized in Los Angeles was in 1992 over the Rodney King riots, when the president had the state’s backing.“The federal government is sowing chaos so they can have an excuse to escalate.

That is not the way any civilized country behaves,” Newsom said on X.The rarely used power stems from ”10 U.S.C.12406,” part of the US Code on Armed Services that allows the federal government to mobilize the National Guard in the event of “a rebellion, or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”“The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle,” Newsom added in another X post.“Don’t give them one.

Never use violence.Speak out peacefully.”Bass, who previously put out a statement blasting the ICE arrests of illegal migrants in Los Angeles, said she tried to convince Trump’s border czar Tom Homan not to put the National...