Governor Gavin Newsom said on Sunday that he intended to request an order from the court to try to arrest the deployment by President Trump of the Troops of the California National Guard in Oregon.
Calling for the president’s action an “breathtaking abuse of being able”, Newsom said in a statement that 300 staff from the California National Guard were deployed in Portland, Oregon., A city that the president called “ravaged by war”.
“They are on their way now,” said Newsom about the National Guard. “This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”
Trump’s move one day came after an Oregon judge temporarily blocked the federalization of the Oregon National Guard.
The president, who mobilized the California National Guard in the midst of immigration demonstrations earlier this year, continued the use of soldiers to combat crime in cities such as Chicago and Washington, aroused indignation among democratic leaders in these jurisdictions. Local leaders, including those of Portland, said that the actions were useless and without legal justification.
“The Trump administration shamelessly attacks the rule of law itself and puts their dangerous words into action-ignore the judicial orders and treat the judges, even those appointed by the president himself, as political opponents,” said Newsom.
In June, Newsom and California Atty. General Rob Bonta filed a federal complaint on Trump’s mobilization of the State National Guard during immigration demonstrations in Los Angeles. California officials should deposit the court order during the deployment on Sunday using this existing trial.
Newsom has accelerated his rhetoric on Trump in recent days: Friday, the governor was unleashed in the universities that could sign the compact on the president’s higher education, which requires campus policy to the right in exchange for priority federal funding.
“I need to put pressure on this moment and the pressure test where we are in American history, not just the history of California,” said Newsom. “That’s it. We lose this country. “
