A federal judge appeared skeptical on Thursday of the Justice Department‘s argument that President Donald Trump lawfully federalized the California National Guard when he deployed it to Los Angeles over the weekend amid violent protests over immigration raids.
Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, hearing arguments in an emergency request from Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and California officials for the court to bar Trump from using the troops in Los Angeles, grilled the DOJ’s lawyer. Breyer spent most of the roughly hourlong hearing focusing on the Trump administration’s argument that its order is not reviewable by a federal court.
Brett Shumate, the DOJ lawyer, also argued that even if the decision to federalize the National Guard were reviewable, the
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