The bone and double dare between Newsom and the Trump administration intervene after the president ordered the Los Angeles National Guard.
Californian officials face Trump on the deployment of the National Guard
Californian officials accuse President Donald Trump of having ignited the demonstrations by going up a federal response.
In the midst of a growing legal confrontation between the federal government and the state of California, president Donald Trump suggested its tsar border Tom Homan should stop Governor Gavin Newsom.
“I would … I think it would be a great thing,” said Trump on June 9 when asked if Homan was to arrest the governor, who challenged the mobilization by the administration of the national guard troops to reprimand Violent protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles. The president also attacked Newsom as “roughly incompetent”.
Newsom was dismayed: “The President of the United States has just called for the arrest of an in-office governor. It was a day when I hoped never in America” ” He said on x.
“I don’t care if you are a democrat or republican,” wrote Newsom. “This is a line that we cannot take as a nation – this is an unmistakable step towards authoritarianism.”
Homan before refused to exclude Arrest of state politicians and premises who hinder federal agents.
Stop Newsom, who responded to Homan’s threat by daring the federals to stop him in a June 8 on social networkswould represent a major escalation of the expansion of the enlargement of the State with the Trump administration.
Homan, responsible for the application of laws and former acting manager of ice, is on the wage bill of the White House and probably does not have direct arrest powers.
Although Trump has the legal power to unilaterally take control of the troops of the California custody thanks to a process called “federalization”, the federalized guards cannot participate directly in the civil police unless the president invokes the Insurrection act. The law allows the president to use the military force to suppress rebellion or revolt against the federal government.
Trump did not invoke the Insurrection Act in the midst of Los Angeles disorders. Her Proclamation federalizing the troops of the guardHowever, is not limited to California and claims that the guards “will protect” ice and other staff members of the Ministry of Internal Security.
In May, the DHS asked separately the activation of 20,000 members of the National Guard to support the application of immigration under the legal authorities controlled by the State which allow the direct police.