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A federal judge pushed the Department of Justice throughout a hearing Thursday about whether President Donald Trump followed the law when he triggered the National Guard in reaction to current anti-immigration enforcement demonstrations and riots in Los Angeles County, California.
Judge Charles Breyer, a Clinton appointee, consistently drew contrasts to a monarchy as he weighed Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s demand that the court momentarily limit Trump’s power to utilize the National Guard.
Breyer stated the United States is not ruled by a king which governmental power has restrictions.
” We’re discussing the president exercising his authority, and the president is, naturally, restricted to his authority,” Breyer stated. “That’s the distinction in between a constitutional federal government and King George. It’s not that a leader can just state something, and it becomes it.”
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President Donald Trump, California Gov. Gavin Newsom. ( Getty Images)
Breyer, who is the bro of retired liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, did not make any choices from the bench throughout the hearing and did not signify how he would rule. He showed that a choice would come as quickly as Thursday night.
The judge’s remarks came as he weighed arguments provided by DOJ Civil Department head Brett Shumate. Shumate argued the courts do not even have authority to examine Trump’s invocation of Title 10, a set of laws that sets out what systems a president can utilize to federalize National Guard members.
The National Guard is a state-based military force under the double control of presidents and guvs. Usually, a president triggers the National Guard with a guv’s authorization.
However, as shown in the courtroom in Northern California on Thursday, the law leaves space for argument about whether a guv’s approval is essential.
The Title 10 law that Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth count on to federalize countless National Guard members states presidents should go “through” a guv. A memorandum Hegseth sent releasing the soldiers specifies that he went through Newsom, a point Breyer questioned.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth affirms throughout a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Complex on June 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
” I’m attempting to determine how something is ‘through’ someone if, in reality, you didn’t provide it to him,” Breyer stated.
Newsom emphatically opposed Trump sending out the military into his state, stating the president’s program of force intensified the recently established riots in parts of Los Angeles and triggered them to get worse.
After the president’s pronouncement, demonstrations and riots magnified. Demonstrators set numerous self-driving vehicles on fire, looted shops, and continued attacking police officers, consisting of by pelting officers with concrete and other difficult things.
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A rioter waves a Mexican nationwide flag beside an automobile on fire throughout a demonstration following federal migration operations, in the Compton community of Los Angeles, California on June 7, 2025. ( Getty Images)
California’s attorney general of the United States submitted a claim over Trump’s actions, pitting the president versus Newsom, among the most popular Democrats in the nation and a possible 2028 governmental competitor.
Lawyers for Newsom argued in a problem that Trump and Hegseth surpassed their authority, breached Title 10, and breached the Administrative Treatment Act.
They “unlawfully bypassed the Guv of California,” the lawyers composed. In addition to potentially needing authorization from a guv, Title 10 likewise needs that there be a disobedience or comparable kind of circumstance that is underway.
” At no point in the previous 3 days has actually there been a disobedience or an insurrection,” the lawyers composed. “Nor have actually these demonstrations increased to the level of demonstrations or riots that Los Angeles and other significant cities have actually seen at points in the past, consisting of over the last few years.”
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