California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Monday that he was suing President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Defense over what he called the “illegal” federalization of the California National Guard.
But legal experts say Newsom is likely to lose, given the president’s broad authority over the armed forces.
The complaint admits, moreover, that there is at least one precedent, dating to the civil rights era, when the president had to federalize the National Guard to break the defiance of the Democrat-run Jim Crow South.
Newsom was responding to the president’s decision to mobilize thousands of National Guard troops — over the governor’s objections — to end riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles.
Democrats have insisted that the
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