Below is my column in Fox.com on the deployment of National Guard in Los Angeles. Another round of court challenges are unfolding, but the escalation is likely to continue on both sides. While the Guard’s motto is “Always Ready, Always There!,” California Democrats do not want them between rioters and federal law enforcement.
Here is the column:
Gov. Gavin Newsom was in his element this week. After scenes of burning cars and attacks on ICE personnel, Newsom declared that this was all “an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act.” No, he was not speaking of the attacks on law enforcement or property. He was referring to President Donald Trump’s call to deploy the National Guard to protect federal officers.
Newsom is planning to challenge the deployment as cities like Glendale are cancelling contracts to house detainees and reaffirming that local police will not assist the federal government.
Trump has the authority under Section 12406 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code to deploy the National Guard if the president is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”
The Administration is saying that that is precisely what is unfolding in California, where mobs attack vehicles and trap federal personnel.
Most critics are challenging the deployment on policy grounds, arguing that it is an unnecessary escalation. However, even critics like Berkeley Law Dean Erwin have admitted that “Unfortunately, President Trump likely has the legal authority to do this.”
There is a fair debate over whether this is needed at this time, but the President is allowed to reach a different conclusion. Trump wants the violence to end now as opposed to escalating as it did in the Rodney King riots or the later riots after the George Floyd killings, causing billions in property damage and many deaths.
Courts will be asked to halt the order because it did not technically go through Newsom to formally call out the National Guard.
Section 12406 grants Trump the authority to call out the Guard and employs a mandatory term for governors, who “shall” issue the President’s order. In the memo, Trump also instructed federal officials “to coordinate with the Governors of the States and the National Guard Bureau.”
Newsom is clearly refusing to issue the orders or coordinate the deployment.
Even if such challenges are successful, Trump can clearly flood the zone with federal authority. Indeed, the obstruction could escalate the matter further, prompting Trump to consider using the Insurrection Act, which would allow troops to participate directly in civilian law enforcement.
In 1958, President Eisenhower used the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Arkansas to enforce the Supreme Court’s orders ending racial segregation in schools.
The Trump Administration has already claimed that these riots “constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.” In support of such a claim, the Administration could cite many of the Democratic leaders now denouncing the claim.
After January 6th, liberal politicians and professors insisted that the riot was an “insurrection” and, in claiming that Trump and dozens of Republicans could be removed from ballots under the 14th Amendment.
Liberal professors insisted that Trump’s use of the word “fight”and questioning the results of an election did qualify as an insurrection. They argued that you merely need to show “an assemblage of people” who are “resisting law” and “using force or intimidation” for “a public purpose.” The involvement of inciteful language from politicians only reinforced these claims. Sound familiar?
Democrats are using this order to deflect from their own escalation of the tensions for months. From Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz calling ICE officers “Gestapo” to others calling them “fascists” and “Nazis,” Democratic leaders have been ignoring objections that they are fueling the violent and criminal responses. It did not matter. It was viewed as good politics.
While Newsom and figures like Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) have called these “peaceful” protests, rocks, and Molotov cocktails have been thrown at police as vehicles were torched. Police had to use tear gas, “flash bang” grenades, and rubber bullets to quell these “peaceful” protesters.
There appears little interest in deescalation on either side. For the Trump Administration, images of rioters riding in celebration around burning cars with Mexican flags are only likely to reinforce the support of the majority of Americans for the enforcement of immigration laws.
For Democrats, they have gone “all in” on opposing ICE and these enforcement operations despite support from roughly 30 percent of the public.
Some democrats are now playing directly to the mob. A Los Angeles City Council member, Eunisses Hernandez, reportedly urged anti-law enforcement protesters to “escalate” their tactics against ICE officers: “They know how quickly we mobilize, that’s why they’re changing tactics. Because community defense works and our resistance has slowed them down before… and if they’re escalating their tactics then so are we. When they show up, we gotta show up even stronger.”
So, L.A. officials are maintaining the sanctuary status of the city, barring the cooperation of local police, and calling on citizens to escalate their resistance after a weekend of violent attacks. Others have posted the locations of ICE facilities to allow better tracking of operations while cities like Glendale are closing facilities.
In Washington, Jeffries has pledged to unmask the identities of individual ICE officers who have been covering their faces to protect themselves and their families from growing threats.
While Democrats have not succeeded in making a convincing political case for opposing immigration enforcement, they may be making a stronger case for federal deployment in increasingly hostile blue cities.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
“Demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbours have been overwhelmingly peaceful.”
— Kamala Harris
We THE PEOPLE of the United States Secure the Blessings of Liberty to OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY.
– American Founders, September 17, 1787
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802 (four iterations for maximal clarity)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…
Does any of that require that these invaders should enter this land lefgally? if it does, your false claims are dead in the water. Succeeding legislation altered all of that when they made entry other than through an official immigration portal illegal. And the progs know that but still they obfuscate. I wonder why
and there is that troublesome term again, you know the one in the 14th amendment, that states “under the jurisdiction of the United States”. If you entered our nation without permission you are still under the sole jurisdiction of your native country and are, therefore, ineligible for protection or designation as a citizen. It is always a wonder how the progs always cherry pick their data so as to conform to their agenda.
Clearly a lie but otherwise an economical, coherent and grammatically correct lie so I suspect Kamala’s aide actually drafted it rather than the verbally challenged former VP.
Young, that was Alfred E. Neuman, for crying out loud!
Had DEIVP Kamalala written this, it would have included BANANAS, coco-nuts, and yellow school buses—miles and miles of yellow school buses—that were “unburdened by what has been!”
Juat another nail in her political coffin.
Who do Hakeem Jeffries and other leading Democrats want to take the masks off of ICE officials but have never said to take the masks off of “protesters” i.e. rioters?
Remember how well Defund the Police did for Democrats? Well the geniuses at the DNC have found Defund 2.0 and it will work just as well.
Democrats are able to find any 20/80 issue out there and turn it into their platform.
PS. Notice how the Hamas riots basically ended the Climate protests and now support for illegal immigrants riots will supplant the dead and buried Hamas support riots as the cause of the day.
PSS. It has been reported that a radical illegal alien supporting NGO in LA was given 34 million dollars just last year and they have been some of the oomph behind these riots. Only in a blue state would the leftists force the taxpayers to give their hard earned money to groups burning down their own city. BTW, the NGO has the strong support of Mayor Karen Bass. It will be nice to see how much the NGO and their admin staff gave to Bass for her campaigns.
In Other News: “L.A. City Council Orders Fire Department to Begin ‘Back Burning’ Two-Mile-Wide Strips to Contain Riot”
Los Angeles city officials rebuffed President Trump in claiming the city can handle the mostly peaceful anti-ICE demonstrations and to call off the National Guard. Instead, the LA Fire Department began countermeasures by preparing to back burn four two-mile-wide strips of offices, houses, and apartment buildings to stop the riots from spreading to the rest of the city.
“We believe the public will support our efforts,” one councilmember stated, “We will also once and forever dispel the myth that the city’s wildfires from several months ago were not caused in large part due to our incompetence in city leadership. This back burning will show that burning a 400 city block area was well planned, and executed.”
“The demonstrations and protests will be contained!”
You really gotta link the BB articles when you write these, man. The lesser intelligences among us don’t understand sarcasm and satire!
-Rabble
Democrats are afraid of sarcasm and satire. That is why they are always trying to make it illegal to post sarcasm, satire even parodys of politicians.
https://x.com/i/status/1931561299395190949
Hey Dem trolls, where are 300k unaccompanied minors you let into the country?
Sold worldwide as slaves and into brothels.
Newsom’s rhetorical is his bucking for the 2028 Presidential Election, He needs a Ticket outta California by the end of his term and exits early 2027, leaving all the messes he has made behind.
Trump should stand down, drop back to the Boarders surrounding California (Federal Controlled egress – i.e.: Interstate Hwys Ports, etc.) and isolate the State. Declaring it a Threat to the Union and National Security.
Make California a Roach Motel, They go in but They can’t come Out. The State will Fall.
Newsom is playing dirty politics. What goes around comes around. Lock him up in his own mess Mr. President.
LA rioters better beware if professional anarchists enter Koreatown. Koreans know who the gang bangers are.
This column ties into JT’s columns from recent weeks discussing the “cult of violence” that suddenly seems attractive to Democrats. Perhaps they are playing at “revolution”. If they go down that route, they will destroy their own party.
” If they go down that route, they will destroy their own party.”
True. Unfortunately, in the process, they could destroy much of what liberties remain for the rest of us. Government (of all stripes) is always very reluctant to give back what it has usurped, even long after the justification for usurping has been overcome.
The Democrat Civil War 2.0 is now official. My ivy-league relatives who laughed at me (and who no longer speak to me since Trump was reelected) are now wrong about the prospect of civil war, and their buddies on the Left proved me right.
California is in rebellion. I call it a rebellion because it has lots of encouragement and some leadership from Democrat pols, especially in California. Mexicans are waving Mexican flags in LA while they threaten and attack federal immigration enforcement.
Governor Nuisance has told Trump if he removes the troops protecting federal officials, LA law enforcement will handle it. Handle what exactly? Keep immigration officials safe while enforcing immigration law in California? Nuisance will never do that, and Democrats know it, which is why he’s saying it. Nuisance is required to protect everyone in California engaged in lawful activity. It’s not selective and it’s not conditional and he knows that but so far has refused to do so for obvious reasons.
What Nuisance is actually saying is that if Trump lets California nullify federal immigration law, Nuisance will send the rioters home (yeah, right; after they’ve run off federal officials). That’s literally a casus bello in our federal union. Nuisance had his chance. He’s compromised.
This is a rebellion and if Trump stands down, in time, California will belong more to Mexico and Beijing than it does to the rest of us.
Yeah, buddy. I voted for this. Time to declare war on Antifa and send in the troops.
King takes pawn. Trump will arrest Nuisance if Nuisance tries to take his queen.
This does play into Trump’s hands, and Trump needed to play this hand.
Trump has the Teddy Roosevelt protocol backwards; he needs to speak softy and carry a big stick – he’s speaking softly (always just hinting that he “might arrest Newsome) but he doesn’t follow through with the big stick.
Go on and arrest ALL the political figures who are suppoprting these riots for failure to follow their oathes to make America safe, but follow political and social agendas counter to that oath. If he would do that, perhaps we could more quickly tamp down what is going to become a national uprising since that is the only card remaining to the democrats.
Proclamation 80—Calling Forth the Militia and Convening an Extra Session of Congress
“On April 15, 1861,…President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, in order to suppress the rebellion. He appealed ‘to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.’”
Proclamation 92—Warning to Rebel Sympathizers
“[On] July 17, 1862,…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.”
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Abraham Lincoln was a Great American President.
Now President Donald J. Trump MUST implement his rendition of “The Lincoln Era,” close the border, rescind rebel sanctuary cities, compassionately repatriate all illegal and unassimilable aliens, revoke birthright citizenship, make English the sole official language, commence a war to defeat the rebellion, impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, “smash” rebel printing presses, networks, podcasts, and social media platforms, and imprison political opponents and rebel judges, all in order to save, not the Union, but the Nation, eradicate the communist American welfare state, and place America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including absolute freedom, free enterprise, free industries, free markets, private property, and minimal taxation and regulation, alongside infinitesimal constitutional government.
(SARC/ON)
Insurrection
https://x.com/Shawn_Farash/status/1931561299395190949
Actions far less dangerous than what’s going on in the streets of LA triggered President Lincoln’s actions against the Confederacy. In 1861, the Rebels stormed Fort Sumter. They did not torch and vandalize Charleston streets. Once again, the political party of the Confederacy has started a civil war. This time the rebels have incorporated foreigners intent on destruction into their vandals. The Mexican flag wavers have made their allegiance clear- it is not the US.
Ben shapiro ran from LA few years ago. All businesses did, too. Newsom moved out of Sacramento.
Ah well, it’s not Fort Los Angeles yet.
it’s really too bad that you didn’t point out the fact that federal immigration laws are constitutional and that sanctuary states are illegal. The states lack any authority to make their own or defy federal immigration laws.
Article VI is unmistakably clear that the Supreme lava land is The Constitution and the laws pursuant to it. That the three branches of government both federal and state are bound to support this constitution.
Federal immigration law states in “ 1324. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
(a) Criminal penalties
(1)(A) Any person who-
The law doesn’t care if it is a average citizen or a governor of a state who violates the immigration laws. They are to be held accountable Under 8 USC 1324 Bringing it in and harboring certain aliens.
Blue state Democrats have gotten away for decades with lawless noncompliance with immigration law. Now we have a president who is going to enforce Constitutional immigration law as required in Article II, Destroying the plan of Democrats to use illegal aliens to maintain control of the country Virtually forever.
Well there may be tough times ahead, it is imperative that President Trump maintain his constitutional duty to enforce federal immigration laws and end the destruction of America in the process.
No problem. Newsom will get an injunction barring Trump from doing anything from one of his favorite leftie federal judges. The 9th Circus will deny a stay and will schedule arguments on the appeal for August, after their summer vacation. The Supremes will have left town already, coming back in October. Business as usual in the federal courts.
Declare them AWOL.
Impose martial law.
You really don’t know how the world works, do you? But then you’re obviously a leftoid so your confusion’s understandable.
“… After January 6th, liberal politicians and professors insisted that the riot was an “insurrection” and, in claiming that Trump and dozens of Republicans could be removed from ballots under the 14th Amendment. …”
THIS IS NOT A RIOT, IT IS A “FOREIGN INVASION”. THE USA IS UNDER DIRECT ATTACK.
The Enemy is waving Their Flag upon the Sovereign Soil of the United States of America, and more of their reinforcements are coming in everyday!
Lock-N-Load it’s time to party Baby! Lets get us some Aliens! 🇺🇲
Full Combat Load, Men!
This does lend authority to the administrations position that children born to illegal immigrants are not birthright citizens under the 14th Amendment, as they are not “under the jurisdiction of” the United States. If they are on our soil waving a foreign flag in a violent insurrection, they are in fact invaders who owe no allegiance to our country.
re: BabyTrump, et al.
Please don’t feed the Trolls!
Send in more Feds and shut this crap down!
And take that ——- Mexican flag and put it snugly where the sun don’t shine!
It is pretty well understood that the money is coming from ActBlue, George Soros’s organization, NGO’s and others. Yet riot after riot with lives and billions lost, no one connected to these names gets charged.
Why is the government so afraid to challenge these people in a criminal trial?
Democrats: Seditious plain and simple.
Wait…I thought the MSM told us that this was the same as a sports celebration and people were just having fun watching cars burn and making S’mores by the fire. What’s the problem here? Minorities just wanta have fun….with apologies to Cyndi Lauper
Nobody said that, Why do you lie?
Why don’t you read the real news and listen to real people talking instead of just inhaling your daily dose of propaganda and then spewing your skewed version all over polite society like a bum on the street spitting on someone’s shoes.
Wrong. whimsicalmama did not lie but her sarcasm was great!
LA news anchor claims people are having ‘fun’ watching cars burn, riots ‘relatively peaceful’
“It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way, and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators,”
— Jory Rand, ABC7 Los Angeles anchor
ABC7-LA Anchor: Police Shouldn’t Turn “Bunch Of People Having Fun Watching Cars Burn” Into Massive Confrontation
“if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation or altercation between officers and demonstrators.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/06/09/abc7-la_anchor_it_could_get_violent_if_police_confront_bunch_of_having_fun_watching_cars_burn.html