Newsom tries to block Trump from expanded military use in California

LOS ANGELES (KFSN) -- President Trump and California Governor Gavin Newsom continued to clash connected Tuesday, arsenic protests successful downtown Los Angeles entered their 5th day.

Newsom filed an exigency petition Tuesday to artifact the president from expanding subject usage successful the state.

A justice denied the contiguous request, but acceptable a proceeding for Thursday.

However, adjacent if the tribunal rules successful favour of the governor, UC Merced governmental subject prof Nate Monroe says it whitethorn not alteration much.

"It is, successful the end, the enforcement subdivision with the absorption of the president's work and right, truthful to speak, to execute and transportation retired the volition of the tribunal oregon legislature," Monroe explained.

The authorities besides filed a suit against the president aft Trump bypassed Newsom to deploy the National Guard, a determination not made since 1965.

"It's an authoritarian playbook," Governor Newsom said connected the 'Pod Save America' podcast.

Trump claimed the authorities and section governments weren't doing their jobs.

"If we didn't get progressive close now, Los Angeles would beryllium burning conscionable similar it was burning a fig of months ago, with each the houses that were lost. Los Angeles close present would beryllium connected fire, and we person it successful large shape," Trump said to the media connected Tuesday.

Newsom called the measurement "unlawful."

"This is an enactment not conscionable against the radical of LA and the authorities of CA, but against Americans each crossed this country, against the principles of our founding fathers," Newsom stated.

Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni applauded Trump's move, saying successful part,

"The engagement of the National Guard became indispensable erstwhile the information of the residents of the greater Los Angeles country were astatine hazard owed to the convulsive quality of the protesters."

Monroe says Trump's historical determination raises caller questions.

"Are radical going to beryllium taxable to the government's astir cardinal power, coercion, and unit due to the fact that they don't hold oregon align with immoderate acceptable of policies?" Monroe stated.

Despite subject presence, protestors are inactive making their voices heard.

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