California Gov. Gavin Newsom has filed an emergency order asking a court to block President Donald Trump and the Department of Defense from sending Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
The “unlawful deployments” of the National Guard and Marine units, the legal filing alleges, “have already proven to be a deeply inflammatory and unnecessary provocation.
“Federal antagonization, through the presence of soldiers in the streets, has already caused real and irreparable damage to the City of Los Angeles, the people who live there, and the State of California,” it continues. “They must be stopped, immediately.”