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A federal judge said that he would have an order “very soon” about whether the Trump government can use national guards and Marines to the area of Los Angeles to support the enforcement of the federal government laws.
The California -Gaverner Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta submitted an emergency proposal on Tuesday to block the expansion of what she described as President Donald Trump and the “unnecessary” and “illegal militarization” of the Department of Defense.
The US district judge Charles Breyer said during a federal hearing on Thursday that the respective questions are “extremely significant” and urgent and that he intends to “act quickly”. According to the arguments of lawyers from the federal government and California, the judge said that he would “very soon” have an order, possibly already on Thursday.
The application, which was submitted against the Trump government as part of the NewM and Bonta lawsuit, is intended to prevent the use of federal government and active marines through the protection of the federal building and property.
In order to send thousands of national guards to Los Angeles, Trump called in Section 12406 of title 10 of the US code for armed services, which enables a federal mission to respond to a “rebellion or a danger of a rebellion against the authority of the United States”. In his arrangement, Trump said that the troops would protect the federal property and the federal assistant who perform their functions.
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in Washington, June 10, 2025, and Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, speaks on June 10, 2025 during an address.
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In the 70-minute hearing on Thursday, Breyer said that the main problem was before him whether the president had adhered to the statute of title 10 and that the National Guard was “properly federal”.
The Federal Government claimed that the President was met and at the same time argued that the law was not in time and that the president has a comprehensive discretion. The judge was asked not to issue an injunction that “counteracts the president’s military judgments”.
In the meantime, on behalf of the state of California and Newsom, the lawyer said that the National Guard was not legally federal and the president put troops on the streets of a civil city as a response to the perceptual disobedient, an “expansive, dangerous idea of federal management”.
Bonta also argued in the emergency registration that Trump had not met the legal requirements for such a federal effort.
“To express it bluntly, there is no invasion or rebellion in Los Angeles. There are civilian unrest that do not differ from episodes that occur regularly in communities throughout the country and which are able to work together by state and local authorities,” wrote Bonta.
Breyer rejected California’s application to immediately issue a temporary injunction and instead stated the hearing for Thursday afternoon in San Francisco and gave the Trump administration the time they wanted to submit an answer.
In their answer, the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice asked the judge to refuse the application from Newsom after a temporary injunction that would limit the military to the protection of the federal building, and argue that such an order would mean a “veto of the rioters to enforce the Federal Law”.
“The unusual application for relief would counteract the military guideline of the commander -in -chief of the commander -in -chief – and do this in the attitude of a temporary injunction. That would be unprecedented. It would be a constitutional anthema. And it would be dangerous,” she wrote.
They also argued that California was not “the judgment of the president that federal amplification was necessary” should not “shift a federal court to the discretion of the president’s discretion in military matters of the president.
The California National Guard is located on Tuesday, June 11, 2025, in the federal building in downtown Los Angeles.
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Around 4,000 national guards and 700 marines were instructed after protests against immigration attacks in the Los Angeles area. The California leaders claim that Trump had lit the protests by sent the military if it was not necessary.
Since then, the protests have spread to other cities, including Boston, Chicago and Seattle.
Trump defended his decision to send the National Guard and Marines on Tuesday, and said the situation in La was “out of control”.
“All I want is security. I just want a safe area,” he said to reporters. “Los Angeles was under siege until we arrived there. The police could not handle it.”
Trump continued that he sent the National Guard and the Marines to other cities so as not to disturb the ice operations, or they are hit with the same or greater strength.
“If we didn’t attack it very strongly, they would have them all over the country,” he said. “But I can inform the rest of the country that if you do it if you do it, you will be hit with the same or greater strength than we have met here.”
ABC News’ Alyssa Pone, Peter Charalambous and Alexandra Hutzler contributed to this report.