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The Trump administration faces a legal challenge to its deployment of the military to protests. Tensions flared after President Trump sent troops, and protests spread to other U.S. cities.
The standard to dispatch the military to a state is not simply in the eye of the beholder. There are limited legal circumstances in which a president is supposed to deploy the military domestically.
It may be tempting to seek, in Donald Trump’s incursion on Los Angeles, some evidence that ... national guard units and sending the military to cities run by Democrats, including Portland ...
"If he can successfully militarize LA without significant political consequences, Baltimore is next," said Angela Angel of BLM PAC.
Trump deployed National Guard troops in Los Angeles in response to violent demonstrations against immigration enforcement.
The state claimed the president improperly deployed the Guard and Marines to Los Angeles without the governor’s consent or input amid immigration protests.