""Six months after they first federalized the California National Guard, defendants still retain control of approximately 300 Guardsmen, despite no evidence that execution of federal law is impeded in any way - let alone significantly. What's more, defendants have sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops," he added in his scathing opening remarks."
""What we have here is a decision that basically says the Trump administration doesn't get to just point to statutory language and say that the conditions are satisfied," she said. "And Judge Breyer spends a good deal of time in this 35-page decision saying, I think you are able to execute federal law through the regular forces. And what happened on the ground doesn't rise to the level of what you need to, as a president, do to take this fairly extraordinary step of federalizing National Guard members - again, when a gove"
A federal judge ordered the end of the deployment of approximately 300 California National Guard troops in Los Angeles and directed that control be returned to the California governor. The court found no evidence that execution of federal law was impeded and concluded the legal threshold for federalizing state Guard members was not met. The ruling criticized sending California Guardsmen into other states and described the effect as creating a national police force of state troops. The order noted that regular federal forces could execute federal law and left the Trump administration time to appeal. California leaders welcomed the decision.
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