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Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is demanding an explanation for why there was a two-hour delay for Los Angeles police to respond when ICE officers came under attack.
The federal agents were serving warrants and making arrests as part of a cartel crime investigation when the leftists in Los Angeles allowed rioters to attack and assault them.
Police took hours to respond, and the riots, vandalism, looting, and attacks have been going on ever since.
A report at Fox confirmed Issa now is calling for an investigation into reports the officers "did not promptly respond" with the help needed.
He's on the House Judiciary Committee and announced he wants a "full and complete Congressional investigation" into the response time of the LAPD assisting the ICE officers who.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed, on Saturday, what happened Friday night when the riots started, "Last night, over 1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer funded property."
"It took the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) two hours to respond."
The city's police chief later claimed that "didn't happen."
But he did admit that traffic trouble delayed officers for 40 minutes.
Trica McLaughlin, an assistant DHS secretary, followed up by confirming that the delay was extensive.
"The fact remains that it took the Los Angeles Police Department two hours to respond," McLaughlin said. "During that time, over 1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer funded property. DHS is grateful that now the LAPD is stepping up to help restore law and order."
Issa charged, "We need to know if the political leadership of the City of Los Angeles, the State of California, or anyone else instructed the LAPD to stand down and not respond to the emergency requests of our ICE agents who were under attack by rioters determined to block them, burn them, or even kill them as they bravely carried out their sworn duties."
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Prosecutors in Wisconsin have just filed an unusual document with a court: They explained that just because a person is a judge, that doesn't mean she gets a free pass to break the law.
That earlier was the stunning claim from Hannah Dugan, a now-suspended judge, arguing that prosecutors weren't even allowed to bring a case against her after evidence showed she distracted federal agents, then let an illegal alien criminal walk out of the courthouse.
Dugan's claim was that she has absolutely immunity for whatever she does in her courtroom – even in the courthouse building.
A report at Fox News now explains that prosecutors disagree.
Prosecutors now have responded to her claim, explaining "the Supreme Court has made clear that judges are not immune from criminal liability."
Their filing said, "In the end, Dugan asks for this Court to develop a novel doctrine of judicial immunity from criminal prosecution, and to apply it to the facts alleged in the indictment, all without reasonable basis—directly or indirectly—in the Constitution, statutes, or case law. … In her lengthy memorandum, Dugan concedes that '[j]udges, like legislators and executive officials, are not above the law.' Dugan's desired ruling would, in essence, say that judges are 'above the law,' and uniquely entitled to interfere with federal law enforcement."
Prosecutors have accused the Milwaukee Circuit Court judge of personally escorting Mexican illegal immigrant and domestic battery suspect Eduardo Flores-Ruiz out of the courthouse. That was after Dugan directed ICE agents to go consult with the chief judge and they left the hallway in front of the courtroom.
The 65-year-old Dugan has been indicted on federal charges of obstruction of proceedings before a U.S. agency and the unlawful concealment of an individual subject to arrest.
Prosecutors said, "Put simply, nothing in the indictment or the anticipated evidence at trial supports Dugan's assertion that agents 'disrupted' the court's docket; instead, all events arose from Dugan's unilateral, non-judicial, and unofficial actions in obstructing a federal immigration matter over which she, as a Wisconsin state judge, had no authority. At the very least, for purposes of deciding this motion, Dugan's claims to the contrary find no support in the indictment and should be rejected."
WND reported when a video surfaced showing the episode.
In an interview on "American Reports," Attorney General Pam Bondi explained how the Trump administration will handle judges who obstruct and block federal efforts to secure the border and remove illegal aliens.
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Many schools across America now are under the influence of leftist administrators, anti-faith teachers' unions, anti-Christian teachers.
And the schools' actions reflect the personal ideologies and religious beliefs, or non-beliefs, of their faculty and managers.
But the American Center for Law and Justice has come across one that has gone to extremes.
It ripped down posters for being too Christian, it ordered a student club to discontinue using the "Good News" name, it ordered censorship of well-known Bible verses and a cross image, it demanded access to planned promotions to determine "whether they were too religious," it banned an entire video series planned by the club, and tore down posters a second time.
"School officials took over and started running the club, insisting on what religious materials were and were not acceptable," the ACLJ reported. "This is viewpoint discrimination in its purest form – and it's unlawful."
The organization explained it has dispatched a demand letter, often a precursor to a lawsuit, to the school as it defends "the constitutional rights of a high school student in New York whose Christian beliefs and religious expression have been repeatedly blocked by school officials."
The organization cited violations of both the First Amendment and the Equal Access Act.
"We are representing a family whose daughter, Jenna, a ninth-grade student at Carmel High School, was denied her right to express her Christian faith and conduct a student Bible club – something countless other students at the school are freely allowed to do. Jenna's only 'offense' was her desire to encourage her peers and share the hope of her faith. For that, school officials took extreme measures to silence her," the ACLJ reported.
"After persistent efforts to gain approval for her faith-based group, Jenna finally received permission to form her club. But her constitutional struggle was far from over. To kick off the Bible club, she created simple posters that announced the club's upcoming meeting. The posters included a welcoming message, a handful of well-known Bible verses, a cross, and an invitation for all students – something Jenna herself feels strongly about – to attend and be encouraged by the words of Jesus. Still, school officials removed the posters from the hallways."
They explained she used "too many Bible verses." And they told her the club could not be the "Good News Club."
"Her posters were censored because they were Christian, and she had her religious messages removed. School officials went as far as insisting on reviewing her posters to determine whether they were too religious," the legal team explained.
Even after she met every demand from the school, officials there decided to "double down."
"When her group decided to show a faith-based video series meant to strengthen students in their personal battles of the mind and spirit – her new posters were again torn down. This time, administrators went even further, banning the entire video series from being shown, citing vague 'complaints' about the religious content," the report said.
Then the school officials demanded to decide "what religious materials were and were not acceptable."
The ACLJ pointed out the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed students' rights to have Bible clubs. It fought and won the Board of Education v. Mergens precedent more than three decades ago.
The student is protected under both of the federal precedents, and "The law is clear: School officials cannot censor religious speech simply because others might disagree with it," the report said.
What the school needs to do is end its "unconstitutional suppression of this student's rights and provide written assurances that Jenna and her peers may meet and express their religious views without interference. If the district refuses, we are fully prepared to file a lawsuit," the ACLJ said.
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"Show me the man, I'll find you the crime!" So said Lavrenty Beria, the notorious chief of the secret police under the Soviet Union's long-time and epically ruthless leader, Josef Stalin.
What that meant, of course, was that any person regarded as a genuine threat to the communist dictatorship would be tried in a kangaroo court on serious but totally made-up crimes. As the Encyclopedia Britannica puts it: "In high-profile, carefully scripted purge trials, perceived political opponents of the government were convicted of heinous offenses that they had not committed."
In today's America, the parallels are both eerie and inescapable.
Remember, after all, that the Democratic Party has embraced not only socialism and the bizarre neo-Marxist religion of "wokeism," but straight-up pathological delusion – everything from championing "transgender" men destroying women's athletics and invading their locker rooms, to intentionally engineering a full-scale invasion of America by foreign gangbangers, sex traffickers and criminals, including thousands of convicted murderers and rapists.
So corrupt and delusional has today's Democratic Party become that, for the first time in history, a major political party pushed a man with obvious dementia (who also happened to be head of a de facto crime family) into the White House as a puppet president, all the while secretly controlling him – and therefore the country – via a hidden "politburo" of puppet-string pullers.
It is this deranged and shockingly corrupt political party that in recent times has been using the judiciary to advance an unholy and catastrophic agenda – first, by following Beria's example of "finding the crime" to fit "the man," in this case President Donald J. Trump.
However, despite the absurdly political wall-to-wall prosecutions of Trump throughout the Biden presidency – after all, in just a short period of time he was suddenly indicted for nearly 100 different crimes! – the "purge trials" ultimately came to naught, with the judges and prosecutors, one by one, being exposed as ridiculously partisan, and sometimes flat-out corrupt, pawns in the Deep State's war against Donald Trump, whom they delight in mocking as "a convicted felon!"
But then, after Trump's stunning electoral-landslide reelection victory in November 2024 and the breathtakingly rapid rollout of his promised and much-needed reforms starting on Inauguration Day, the judicial attacks on Trump assumed a new and different form: Now left-leaning judges across the land would ignore their oaths of office, the clear intent of the law and the constitutional separation of powers, and instead fixate on undermining and blocking at every turn the pro-America agenda of the democratically elected president of the United States.
Indeed, many top legal analysts say what is happening in America right now constitutes nothing short of an attempted judicial coup d'etat.
But why, one might ask, would judges be the new warriors dedicated to stopping Trump?
Consider that when Trump won the 2024 election, the Republican Party also captured both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Finally, most voters assumed, Team Trump had the power, authority and congressional backing to implement much-needed changes and "make America great again." After all, that's how the nation's system has always worked.
But wait.
What if the judiciary, the remaining constitutional branch of America's unique tripartite government, took on a new role – of undermining and overruling the president?
As it turned out, the same judiciary that disgraced itself with all the idiotically corrupt, wall-to-wall lawfare attacks against Donald Trump throughout the Biden administration has been only too willing to do its part to stop Trump at any cost now, be it legal or illegal, moral or immoral, sane or – as the reader will discover in this issue of Whistleblower – insane.
To describe the game plan simply: If you don't like something President Trump is doing, just file a lawsuit with any one of thousands of judges, making sure to pick one who dislikes Trump and his policies. And then suddenly, one local judge – deliberating in his or her little jurisdiction in one of 50 sovereign states – writes something on a piece of paper and magically overrules the overwhelmingly elected and constitutionally empowered president of the United States.
Hundreds of such lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration in the last few months, attempting to reverse multiple common-sense policies overwhelmingly supported by Americans – most notably, Trump's efforts to deport illegal-alien criminals, gang members and terrorists.
The drama has sometimes reached almost comical heights, with one jurist – James Boasberg, the chief judge of the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. – actually ordering planes carrying Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador to turn around mid-flight and bring back those criminals to the U.S.! Fortunately, the Trump administration did not comply, and Judge Boasberg is now facing a motion for impeachment from the House of Representatives. But then there's Judge Hannah Dugan in Wisconsin, as well as Judge Joel Cano in New Mexico, both arrested by the FBI in late April for allegedly harboring illegal-alien gang members!
There is an unmistakably surreal element to the current judicial insurrection: Who are these people? The executive and legislative branches of government are very public, their representatives profiled and interviewed daily online, on television and in print. In stark contrast, the judicial branch of government – both its members and its workings – remain largely invisible.
The mask is ripped off in the powerful June issue of WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, titled "JUDICIAL INSURRECTION: How rogue judges have gone to war with Trump, the Constitution and America."
Issue highlights include:
* "Judicial insurrection" by David Kupelian
* "From 'We the people' to 'We the judges'? Thomas Jefferson declared, 'The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary'" by Jerry Newcombe
* "'IT IS AN INSURRECTION!' Watch Mark Levin flay radical left judges: 'They know they're abusing their power. They're issuing these national injunctions to cripple the Executive Branch, to overturn the results of an election'"
* "The judges who would be kings: 'Democrats are hoping that hundreds of legal bee stings will bring down the elephant'" by Robert Knight
* "'Criminal contempt': Federal judge threatened Trump for deporting illegal aliens: But no worries, Boasberg said the president could 'clear' the case by returning the deported murderers and rapists to America"
* "'Another activist judge is protecting criminal illegal immigrant monsters'": Trump White House details one of many examples of out-of-control judges trying to overthrow the president
* "Gingrich: America is experiencing 'potentially a judicial coup d'etat': Troubled by 'the Judicial Branch's effort to fully override the Legislative and Executive branches'"
* "From lawfare to judicial coup d'etat: Why the 'Deep State' hates, fears and persecutes President Donald Trump" by David Kupelian
* "AG Pam Bondi warns judges who are subverting Trump's border security agenda by illegally protecting criminal suspects" by Bob Unruh
* "Supreme Court justice's agenda to 'fight' Trump betrays evidence of 'judicial overreach': 'The role of a judge is to zealously advocate for the Constitution,' not side with every leftwing cause" by Bob Unruh
* "Pollster: 4 in 5 self-described 'liberals' want Elon Musk cast into prison: 'According to Democrats, anyone who wants to cut insane levels of spending, debt, waste and looting of taxpayer money is a criminal who should be arrested and sent to prison'" by Wayne Allyn Root
* "Judge who housed suspected Tren de Aragua terror gang member booted … permanently! State Supreme Court rules he 'can never hold a judicial office again'" by Bob Unruh
* "Obama judge bars DOGE from accessing Social Security systems" by Cristina Laila
* "Biden-appointed judge demands schools keep offering obscene books to kids: Blocked state law banning material 'with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act'" by Jaryn Crouson
* "Lesbian judge blocks school board from removing sexually explicit books, saying it's unconstitutional to follow 'conservative values': 'The court viewed any decision motivated by conservative values as unacceptable and partisan' by Tyler O'Neil
* "Judge blocks Trump from ending legal status for 530,000 illegal aliens Biden brought in. Ruling claims program created by executive order can't be altered by executive order" by Virginia Allen
* "'Cruelly imprisoning': Trump moves to help 'innocent' Gold Star grandmother jailed by Colorado Democrats: Orders DOJ to 'take all necessary action' to secure release of 'hostage'" by Bob Unruh
* "Why Democrats want to gut the Supreme Court: 'Judicial activism – judges coming up with desired results by twisting the Constitution to their desired end'" by Jerry Newcombe
* "DeSantis offers simple solution to stop leftwing activist judges from undermining Trump"
* "The judicial 'resistance' is setting itself up for humiliation: The entire notion of a 'nationwide injunction' is oxymoronic" by Josh Hammer
* "The left's secret lawfare playbook exposed": Elizabeth Farah interview with Will Chamberlain, senior counsel at the Article III Project.
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ABC News has confirmed a decision not to renew the contract of now ex-Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran after he launched an enraged rant against an official in the Trump administration.
Moran had been suspended over the weekend when his diatribe appeared.
Moran claimed, "The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him."
Miller responded with a charge that "Terry pulled off his mask" to reveal, in his meltdown, "the corporate press in America."
It was the Washington Examiner that said ABC "reportedly announced" it will not renew.
ABC said, "At ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism."
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Scientists working with the Defense Intelligence Agency concluded only three months after the COVID-19 pandemic began that it likely was genetically manufactured and escaped a Chinese lab, according to a report from Just the News.
That's in direct conflict with the often-repeated claims from Anthony Fauci, then a public health official and presidential adviser on COVID, that it had evolved in nature.
The report explained the bombshell revelation now is at the heart of investigations into a possible U.S. intelligence cover-up.
A slide from the DIA National Center for Medical Intelligence presentation on June 25, 2020, charges, "SARS-CoV-2 Spike Appears to be a Chimera."
"Chimera" is considered a "genetically engineered pathogen, the report said.
The study traces the process used for creating the new virus to an earlier manuscript that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, considered by most in the medical and science communities now to have been the source of the China virus that circled the globe killing millions, and triggering the sudden development of mRNA shots that now have been confirmed to have triggered side effects, some fatal, in millions.
The special presentation, according to the report, said, "Break points align with those identified by WIV Scientists in 2008."
Further, the study found, "The molecular biology capabilities of WIV and the genome assessment are consistent with the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was a lab-engineered virus that was part of a bank of chimeric viruses … at WIV that escaped from containment."
The stunning revelation that destroys the long-claimed story line that COVID developed in nature and jumped to humans, was uncovered recently under the Freedom of Information Act from U.S. intelligence agencies, the report said.
"At least four whistleblowers have been interviewed in recent months by the Intelligence Community Inspector General's office, the DIA's internal watchdog and the FBI about the early findings from DIA's National Center for Medical Intelligence and whether there was an effort to keep those genetic sleuths from communicating their evidence to other intelligence agencies, government officials told Just the News," the report said.
"One area of focus is whether intelligence agencies sought to suppress the DIA research from a highly public release by President Joe Biden's Director of National Intelligence Office in 2021 that assessed that COVID was 'equally likely' to have come from nature or a lab accident, the officials said."
The report said Sen. Roger "Doc" Marshall, R-Kan., earlier warned that information about COVID had been censored and that was "an alarming breach of integrity in the investigative process."
Multiple whistleblowers also have offered similar claims about COVID, its source and investigations into its origins.
The report said the FBI has begun a "sprawling criminal investigation" into COVID cover-ups. Just recently, FBI chief Kash Patel revealed his agents obtained the long-sought cellphones belonging to Fauci during the pandemic.
Members of Congress long have sought details about COVID, its origins and its path that left the world economy shaken.
For example, the report noted, already revealed was that intelligence reports showed a "biological hazard cleanup" at Wuihan in 2019, weeks after the first death was reported, a type of cleanup consistent with a lab leak.
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Cars burned. Buildings attacked. Federal officers threatened. And to one network, it's a "bunch of people having fun…"
Networks were ridiculed during earlier riots in Wisconsin for having a reporter, standing in front of blocks of burning buildings, describe how the violence was "mostly peaceful."
That wild claim already has been matched in the Los Angeles riots, triggered by a violent reaction to federal officers performing their duties in arresting illegal alien criminals, some accused of murder and hurting children.
That network claim was that the events were a "bunch of people having fun…"
A report at the Gateway Pundit noted the ABC claim was as "record absurdity."
"It's the new 'fiery but mostly peaceful protests,'" the report said. That would be a local ABC 7 anchor describing the anti-ICE insurrection burning down the city and attacking federal officers as "just a bunch of people having fun, watching cars burn."
The report said the anchor, "reported to be ABC7 Eyewitness News co-anchor Marc Brown," charged that it was the Trump administration that could "a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators" by bringing in law enforcement.
He pointed out, "It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there."
The report cited history: "It can be recalled that CNN once described the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as 'fiery but mostly peaceful protests' in the days after sex offender and police attacker Jacob Blake was shot by police in what was later found to be a justified shooting."
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Riots exploded in Los Angeles over the weekend, and President Donald Trump ordered National Guard troops in to quell the violence.
Multiple Democrat activists and radicals immediately jumped to defend the community of migrants, including criminal illegal aliens, from the federal plan to enforce the law.
Unfair, they claimed, to bring officers against immigrants over their illegal status.
But that wasn't it at all.
Border czar Tom Homan, assigned by Trump to crack down on illegal immigrants and crime, and to close the border left wide open during Joe Biden's tenure, explained the real target was real criminals.
"It wasn't an immigration raid," Homan explained. "It was to service of three criminal warrants at locations based on a large criminal conspiracy that ICE is investigating."
He said the raids in Los Angeles were needed because of a criminal investigation into money laundering and cartel activity.
The Daily Mail described the result: "Chaos erupted after protesters clashed with immigration officials across downtown Los Angeles, leading to three days of violence. Looters targeted businesses across the city amid the demonstrations, which saw cars torched and security forces firing tear gas at rioters."
With local authorities unable or unwilling to bring things under control, and media saying it was just a bunch of people have a good time watching cars burn, the White House took action.
Donald Trump pointed out the rioters are not "peaceful protesters" as leftists in the state claimed.
Instead, they are "troublemakers and insurrectionists."
"That's why no one is talking about the Fashion District, it wasn't an immigration raid. It was to service of three criminal warrants at locations based on a large criminal conspiracy that ICE is investigating." Homan said.
"That has to do with money laundering, tax evasion and customs fraud where a company under-declared over $80 million in goods, failed to pay $17 million in fees. And it's part of an overall conspiracy on numerous businesses that they believe that some of this money is being laundered in Mexico and Colombia, the cartel activity."
Arrests were not based on an illegal status for immigrants, he said, but on warrants in a criminal investigation.
One of the biggest protesters against enforcing the law was California Gavin Newsom, who appeared in interviews belligerent, demanding that Trump cancel his order for troops.
Trump then expressed his support for the idea of Homan arresting Newsom.
He made the comments after arriving at the White HJouse.
Fox News reported its reporter, Peter Doocy, asked Trump whether he though Homan should take up Newsom's challenge.
The Democrat governor had said, "The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism."
"What we discussed was for those protesters that crossed the line… you can protest, you get your First Amendment rights… But when you cross that line, you put hands on an ICE officer, or you destroy property, or I'd say that you impede law enforcement, or you're knowingly harboring and concealing an illegal alien… that's a crime, and the Trump administration is not going to tolerate it," Homan said.
Homan did confirm there was no discussion of arresting Newsom.
Trump confirmed, "I would do it if I were Tom. I think it's great. Gavin likes the publicity, but I think it would be a great thing."
Trump pointed out he actually likes Newsom: "He's a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent. Everybody knows. All you have to do is look at the little railroad he's building. It's about 100 times over budget."
Trump also described the rioters: "The people that are causing the problem are professional agitators. They're insurrectionists, they're bad people. They should be in jail."
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a longtime leftist Democrat whose state practices protect illegal alien criminals and attack federal agents trying to enforce the law, says he'll sue President Donald Trump over his decision to dispatch troops to quell the weekend's rioting in Los Angeles.
That was triggered by illegal aliens responding to federal officers arresting criminals in their community, suspects accused of murder, of hurting children, of assault, and more.
Newsom, according to a report at the Hill, said his state will sue Trump.
He explained in an interview that the lawsuit would challenge Trump's orders to use the California National Guard without the state's consent.
The Hill reported, "The governor pointed to Trump's Truth Social post earlier on Sunday, in which he said the National Guard had done a 'great job.' Newsom said the state forces had not even been deployed at the time."
Newsom claimed Trump's actions were "unconstitutional" and an "illegal act."
However, constitutional expert Jonathan Turley explained in a column while Trump's agenda may face a glitch or two, the Constitution allows the president to quell insurrections.
"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," Turley explained.
"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."
He noted that even "critics like Berkeley Law Dean Erwin have admitted that 'Unfortunately, President Trump likely has the legal authority to do this.'"
Turley explained "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."
But he said, "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."
And he suggested that if Newsom's obstruction of the president's agenda succeeds, it could escalate.
Because then the president could consider "using the Insurrection Act, which would allow troops to participate directly in civilian law enforcement."
It was President Eisenhower who, in 1958, used that law to send troops to Arkansas to enforce the Supreme Court's orders ending racial segregation in schools.
Turley explained, "The Trump Administration has already claimed that these riots 'constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.'"
The riots are the result of "months" of escalation from Democrats, he said.
"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."
And he noted the descriptions of the violence as "peaceful."
"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," he said.
And he warned, "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."
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Hundreds of Marines are being dispatched to Los Angeles to help quell the anti-ICE riots there, leading President Donald Trump to assure Americans that the situation is "now heading in the right direction."
Over the weekend hundreds rioted, burning cars and throwing rocks as federal officers who were making arrests in connection with criminal cartel cases, not issues involving illegal immigration.
The Washington Examiner reported sources said about 500-700 Marines from nearby Camp Pendleton would be tasked with protecting federal property and personnel.
And, the report noted, various government officials explained to the Wall Street Journal that the Marines were being assigned to assist law enforcement in the city.
"An official speaking with the Wall Street Journal suggested that the Marines would not be directly engaging with protesters. The Marines, like the National Guard members already stationed in the city, cannot arrest protesters unless President Donald Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, with the president saying roughly an hour before the deployment that he did not consider the protests an insurrection, a reversal of a comment he made the night before that those protesting were 'paid insurrectionists,'" the report said.
Trump said the situation now appears to be "well under control."
"I think it would have been a very bad situation. It was heading in the wrong direction. It's now heading in the right direction," he said.
The report noted the situation developed on Friday, and since had "spiraled out of control."
Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier reacted to the idea of having Marines suppress violence in the city with the commented it was "deranged."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said riots and attacks on ICE facilities and federal officers actually were a national security threat.
"The @DeptofDefense is mobilizing the National Guard IMMEDIATELY to support federal law enforcement in Los Angeles," he said in a post on X at the time. "And, if violence continues, active duty Marines at Camp Pendleton will also be mobilized — they are on high alert."
Fox News reported the addition of the Marines followed Trump's dispatch of about 2,000 National Guardsmen to the riot-racked city over the weekend.