California officials said they would immediately sue to block the White House from sending the military to San Francisco after President Donald Trump claimed \u201cunquestioned power\u201d to send in the National Guard after announcing a campaign last month to punish liberal cities with military might.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Rob Bonta, Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said Tuesday they were prepared to challenge any federal deployment in court. On Sunday, Trump told Fox News that he was<\/a> preparing to send the National Guard to San Francisco to \u201cmake it great again,\u201d claiming residents asked him to intervene after the city went \u201cwoke\u201d and \u201cwrong\u201d 15 years ago.<\/p>\n Newsom, who was mayor of San Francisco at that time, said he would challenge any federal incursion into his hometown, and cited statewide declining crime rates.<\/p>\n \u201cDonald Trump, himself a convicted felon who pardoned felons convicted of assaulting federal law enforcement officers, is misleading the public with his false narrative that America, and especially California, is some lawless wasteland,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThe notion that the federal government can deploy troops into our cities with no justification grounded in reality, no oversight, no accountability, no respect for state sovereignty \u2014 it\u2019s a direct assault on the rule of law. We\u2019re drawing a line: California will always defend the Constitution, our people, and our values from authoritarian overreach.\u201d<\/p>\n Bonta, who has sued the White House dozens of times since Trump reentered office in January, called Trump\u2019s plan \u201coutrageous,\u201d \u201cindefensible\u201d and illegal.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Trump has long abandoned any pretenses for the illegal federalization and deployment of California\u2019s National Guard. He does not care about satisfying the conditions of the law; he cares about himself, and he cares about power,\u201d Bonta said. \u201cTrump has made no secret of his intentions: To use our National Guard as his own Royal Army and our cities as a training ground for the military.\u201d<\/p>\n San Francisco is the latest liberal enclave to draw the White House\u2019s ire after the Pentagon sent troops to Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon; Washington, D.C.; and Chicago, Illinois to suppress anti-deportation protests in those cities. On Sunday, Trump claimed he had \u201cunquestioned power\u201d and has floated invoking the Insurrection Act to claim a domestic invasion and justify using federal troops as law enforcement against Americans.<\/p>\n Tech moguls Marc Benioff, Elon Musk and White House AI czar David Sacks have urged Trump to intervene, claiming San Francisco is overrun with violent crime and homelessness, even as homicide rates have fallen to record lows not seen since the 1950s. Benioff later walked back his comments.<\/p>\n San Francisco leaders like Sen. Scott Wiener, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, Supervisors Jackie Fielder and Rafael Mandelman and Mayor Daniel Lurie have all called on federal leaders to stay away.<\/p>\n \u201cI am deeply grateful to the members of our military for their service to our country, but the National Guard does not have the authority to arrest drug dealers\u2014and sending them to San Francisco will do nothing to get fentanyl off the streets or make our city safer,\u201d Lurie said Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bonta and Newsom sued earlier this month after Trump ignored a court order and sent the California National Guard to Oregon to protect federal buildings there from anti-government protests.<\/p>\n Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a restraining order blocking him from deploying Cal Guard members there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California officials said they would immediately sue to block the White House from sending the military to San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9778,7,9,8,536,2804,457,2806,101,2805],"class_list":["post-17475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-attorney-general-rob-bonta","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-troops","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-national-guard","tag-san-francisco","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}