"Costumed protesters and President Trump's brash social media posts grabbed headlines during the administration's push to deploy National Guard troops to California, Illinois and Oregon. But ultimately, the deployments ended because of esoteric case law and round-the-clock legal preparation and wrangling, according to the Democratic attorneys general from those states. Earlier this month, President Trump pulled hundreds of National Guard troops from California, Oregon and Illinois after the Supreme Court ruled against the administration in the Illinois case."
"It required nearly constant coordination and communication between states as they worked to understand and define the archaic and rarely used legal mechanism that the Trump administration used to justify the deployments. "We were in uncharted territories. This had never happened before," remembers California Attorney General Rob Bonta. "And California was on the front lines from day one." In June of last year,"
Mass deployments of federalized National Guard troops occurred in California, Illinois and Oregon amid protests and outspoken presidential social media posts. The deployments ended after legal challenges and a Supreme Court ruling against the administration in the Illinois case. Democratic state attorneys general coordinated intensive, around-the-clock legal work to challenge an archaic and rarely used federal mechanism used to federalize state guards. In June, the administration seized control of California's National Guard over the governor's objections and sent more than 4,000 troops and Marines to downtown Los Angeles to protect federal immigration officers and facilities. Claims of widespread violence were contradicted by data and questioned by judges.
Read at www.npr.org
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]