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Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law
President Trump bypassed the authority of Gov. Gavin Newsom to call up
2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protests.


Shawn HublerLaurel Rosenhall
By Shawn Hubler and Laurel Rosenhall
Published June 7, 2025Updated June 8, 2025, 1:44 a. m. ET
President Trump took extraordinary action on Saturday by calling up 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protests in California, making
rare use of federal powers and bypassing the authority of the states
governor, Gavin Newsom.
It is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a states National Guard force without a request from that states governor, according
to Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, an independent law and policy organization. The last time was when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent
troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators in 1965, she said.
Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, immediately rebuked the presidents action. That
move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions, Mr.
Newsom said, adding that this is the wrong mission and will erode public
trust.
Governors almost always control the deployment of National Guard troops in their states. But the directive signed by Mr. Trump cites 10 U. S. C.
12406, referring to a specific provision within Title 10 of the U. S. Code
on Armed Services. Part of that provision allows the federal deployment of National Guard forces if there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion
against the authority of the Government of the United States.
It also states that the president may call into federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those
laws.
Mr. Trumps directive said, To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of
rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Saturday night that Mr. Trump was deploying the National Guard in response
to violent mobs that she said had attacked federal law enforcement and immigration agents. The 2,000 troops would address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester, she said.
Although some demonstrations have been unruly, local authorities in Los
Angeles County did not indicate during the day that they needed federal assistance.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a post on X late on Saturday that
the Pentagon was mobilizing the National Guard IMMEDIATELY. But he did not
say when or where the troops would assemble, or identify their units.
Mr. Trumps directive authorized the secretary of defense to employ any
other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and
support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion. In Mr. Hegseths post on X, he
said that active duty Marines were on high alert at Camp Pendleton, about
100 miles south of Los Angeles, and could also be mobilized.
Protests have occurred on Friday and Saturday in California to oppose
federal immigration raids on workplaces. The latest is unfolding at a Home Depot in Paramount, Calif. , about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. California Democrats have braced for months for the possibility that
President Trump would seek to deploy U. S. troops on American soil in this
way, particularly in Democratic-run jurisdictions. Privately, they have acknowledged that such a move, absent the states agreement, would have
profound implications.
Mr. Trump suggested deploying U. S. forces in the same manner during his
first term to suppress outbreaks of violence during the nationwide protests over the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. He opted against
doing so at the time, but he has repeatedly raised the idea of using troops
to secure border states.
In 2020, in the final days of Mr. Trumps first presidential term, military helicopters were used to rout peaceful protesters demonstrating against
police violence near the White House.
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For the federal government to take over the California National Guard,
without the request of the governor, to put down protests is truly
chilling, said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the
University of California, Berkeley. It is using the military domestically
to stop dissent.
The National Guard was last federalized in 1992, Ms. Goitein said, when President George H. W. Bush sent troops to Los Angeles to control riots
after police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. That deployment was requested by the Californias governor at the time, Pete
Wilson.
Mr. Trump and his aides have often lamented that not enough was done by Minnesotas governor to quell protests that followed the death of Mr. Floyd
in 2020.
During a campaign rally in 2023, Trump made clear he was not going to hold
back in a second term. Youre supposed to not be involved in that, you just
have to be asked by the governor or the mayor to come in the next time, Im
not waiting, Mr. Trump said.
Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Carol Rosenberg contributed reporting.
Shawn Hubler is The Timess Los Angeles bureau chief, reporting on the news, trends and personalities of Southern California.
Laurel Rosenhall is a Sacramento-based reporter covering California
politics and government for The Times.

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Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law
President Trump bypassed the authority of Gov. Gavin Newsom to call up
2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protests.

Shawn HublerLaurel Rosenhall
By Shawn Hubler and Laurel Rosenhall
Published June 7, 2025Updated June 8, 2025, 1:44 a. m. ET

President Trump took extraordinary action on Saturday by calling up 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protests in California, making rare use of federal powers and bypassing the authority of the states governor, Gavin Newsom.

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<https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-defense-secretary>

"The president was enraged," Esper recalled. "He thought that the protests
made the country look weak, made us look weak and 'us' meant him. And he
wanted to do something about it.

"We reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly at
[Joint Chiefs of Staff] Gen. [Mark] Milley and said, 'Can't you just shoot
them, just shoot them in the legs or something?' ... It was a suggestion
and a formal question. And we were just all taken aback at that moment as
this issue just hung very heavily in the air."

. . .

He wrote about those challenges in a new book, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a
Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times. In it, Esper describes
Trump as a volatile, ill-informed leader obsessed with power and self
image.

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