US President Donald Trump doubled down on his decision to send National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell immigration raid protests, suggesting that California Gov. Gavin Newsom should be arrested by “border czar” Tom Homan.
Newsom accused the president of acting like a “dictator” and earlier on Monday said he would sue the administration over the deployment. It marks the first time that federal troops have been deployed on domestic soil against the wishes of state authorities since the 1960s.
Trump is testing the boundaries of executive power, the Financial Times wrote: He used a rarely invoked law aimed to suppress rebellions against the federal government to deploy the troops, with legal scholars arguing the moves violate the US Constitution.