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Thune Not Sure What Authority Trump Using to Deploy Marines to Los Angeles
- ICE agents conducted raids at three locations in Los Angeles on Friday, sparking significant local unrest.
- The raids provoked protests that intensified the following day, prompting President Donald Trump to order 2,000 National Guard troops to deploy to the city.
- Subsequently, the Pentagon mobilized about 700 Marines from the Twentynine Palms base to support approximately 300 National Guard members managing the protests.
- Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell reported no formal notice of the Marines' arrival, while the Pentagon established rules for potential military use of force during this rare domestic deployment.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized the deployment as illegal and inflammatory, warning it risks escalating tensions and undermining federal checks and balances.
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In a speech to soldiers Donald Trump justifies the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles. In doing so, he resorts to a framing that he uses elsewhere. California's Governor Newsom is trying to slow down the president on the right.
The sending of the National Guard and the Marines serves to shift the attention from the cuts to programs like Medicare and Medicaid, measures that are unpopular also near the republican electorate
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has filed an urgent motion to stop the militarization of protests in the second largest city in the United States. The court dismisses an immediate ruling and sets a hearing for this ThursdayDonald Trump doubles the bet and sends 700 Marines to Los Angeles “Trump is directing the U.S. Army against U.S. citizens.” California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, after the deployment of the Marines and the National Gu…
Thune not sure what authority Trump using to deploy Marines to Los Angeles
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) supports President Trump’s deployment of federal resources to quell the riots in Los Angeles, but he’s not sure what authorities Trump is relying on to deploy 700 active-duty Marines to a U.S. city. “I don’t know the particulars on what authorities exist there but my assumption is that the administration has been looking carefully at what he can and can’t do under the law. Obviously, the 1798 Act is ava…
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