California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Tuesday on CNN’s “New Central” that President Donald Trump sending the National Guard to Los Angeles was “an unlawful power grab.”
Bonta said, “We sued yesterday because the president has been engaged in an unlawful power grab. He has tried to seize authority he does not have. He cannot lawfully deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles, period, full stop—the statute he cites to does not give him that authority. You need to have an invasion or a rebellion, or the inability to execute the laws of the United States. None of that is present. He also needs to have consulted Governor Newsom and issued the order through Governor Newsom, who has objected to calling in the National
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