New message from Gov. Newsom: he has formally requested the Trump

[senseandsensibility]

administration rescind their "unlawful deployment" of troops in Los Angeles and "return them to my command."
From Kyle Griffin on bluesky.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Only thing missing is Trump on the scene waving his Bible.

The American public will see this for what it is: orchestrated overkill. An attempt to get out in front of No Kings Day with a Portland-style staged display of power.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. i was hoping that the bible in his hand would have caught fire .

[EndlessWire]

38. You could be right.

I saw one of his interviews, and he is obsessed with Gavin Newsom. He didn't say anything much about rioters. He's focused on getting Newsom.

1. Nobody attends the "birthday" parade. Nobody.
2. No Kings Day happens everywhere.
3. We are going to have to initiate General Strike days, where nobody works or does anything. Except, emergency services.

Nothing he does here will be something he can be held accountable for, thanks to the Roberts Court. I still think we should go after his golf course. Don't know how, but we should eliminate it for him.

I feel really blue today, in more ways than one.

[Montauk6]

41. Not to mention, if it's his Limited Edition copy...

the biggest informercial grift since the Golden Age of Tom Vu and Don LePre.

[Evolve Dammit]

44. Stay tuned.... His Chinese made bible will be presented at some point(s). OK schools standard issue. n/t

[keep_left]

48. Yep, waving it upside down and backwards...

...and in front of a "woke, accepting church" as well (including a rainbow flag!) because Trump's too lazy to find the "right" church.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220318626#post4
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219567168#post45

[Clouds Passing]

2. Just take them back Newsom. Dump has no right.

[MadameButterfly]

27. With 2 leaders claiming command, what would the troops do?

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

32. Ignore the Governor

He is no longer in command over them. That changed as soon as the Federal call up happened. This will have to get taken to court to order invalidate the call up.

[MadameButterfly]

37. I agree

In any case you can't have it be unclear.
The courts must decide, and it will determine whether Trump can take over all the National Guards or whether these are forces that belong to the states. Trump doesn't want the Governors to have any force available to them if he starts doing even crazier stuff.

[OldBaldy1701E]

43. "The courts must decide..."

Then, we are boned for sure.

[MadameButterfly]

46. The courts have been consistently finding for us

Obviously SCOTUS is a wild card. But if 95% of the courts in the country rule against Trump and are overturned by 6 people, at least it will be on the record that SCOTUS is installing a dictatorship.

Roberts and Barrett might have a problem with that. That is our hope.
We have to establish the illegality of what he is doing. We won't win in a gunfight.

If Trump ignores the courts and uses the military, it will at least be understood by all that it is a coup.
Which will be important when the country falls apart and the sycophants and military won't prop him up anymore.

[Klarkashton]

30. This is the truth. Just send out the order.

[senseandsensibility]

3. I appreciate Newsom's messaging today

I now see a chyron on MSNBC quoting Newsom as saying that California did not have a problem until trump got involved. He's keeping it simple and going on the offense.

[Magoo48]

19. Agent Orange hates our state. He will fuck with us every chance he gets.

He will find all the resistance he wants here. If he doesn’t find it, he will create it just so he can punish our state.
In my not so humble opinion, I think we should drive the fucker crazy with every opportunity which arises.

[Klarkashton]

31. Trump people thought they saw some low hanging

Fruit in LA for a big win. They have no funding idea about Los Angelinos. No fucking clue.

[magicarpet]

52. California is Lib Central.

trDUMP wants to wrestle Newsom to the ground and shave his head on live TV.

If djt can out maneuver Newsom then djt can conquer the remaining states in a show of force.

If trDUMP wins this - trDUMP's brand of Fascism will become the political ideology of the day. The Heritage Foundation will pull the plug on American Democracy and Project 2025 will flip into high gear taking over every facet of our government as we transition into a Christo-Fascist Theocracy.

[Amaryllis]

4. Wonder if he could get a judge to stop it like they did with the deportation flight to El Salvador. Seems

the judiciary is the remedy here.

[WarGamer]

6. has anyone seen a legal analysis explaining how it's unlawful?

Wheeler or someone?

[chowder66]

10. Newsom spells it out in this letter....

Read the entire text of Newsom’s letter below:

Dear Secretary Hegseth:

On June 7, 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum to your office entitled “Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions.” The memorandum purports to invoke 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to “call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard . . . to temporarily protect ICE and other United States Government personnel who are performing Federal functions, including the enforcement of Federal law, and to protect Federal property.” The memorandum further directs “actions as necessary for the Secretary of Defense to coordinate with the Governors of the States and the National Guard Bureau in identifying and ordering into Federal service the appropriate members and units of the National Guard under this authority.”

Section 12406 states that “the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary” to (1) repel an invasion of the United States by a foreign nation; (2) suppress a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or (3) execute the laws of the United States when the President is unable to do so with regular forces. Section 12406 further states that “[o]rders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States.”

.......

Last night, the Adjutant General of California received a memorandum from your office with the subject line “Calling Members of the California National Guard into Federal Service,” which states that “[t]wo thousand members of the California National Guard will be called into Federal service effective immediately for a period of 60 days.” Notably, this directive did not issue “through the governor[] of the State[]” as required by section 12406; the Department of Defense did not transmit this directive to the Office of the Governor, nor was it approved or ordered by the Governor of California. This directive is also inconsistent with the President’s memorandum, which anticipates “coordinat[ion] with the Governors of the States” in identifying and ordering units of the National Guard into federal service.

more......


https://ca.news.yahoo.com/gavin-newsom-demands-trump-remove-232539960.html

[Captain Zero]

12. The Adjt General of the Guard fucked up

He should have told Trump he couldn't accept the orders if they did not come from/through the Governor of California. Newsome should dismiss the Adjt. General.

[chowder66]

20. The Guard fell under the Fed because Trump federalized them. That makes Trump the Commander in Chief over them.

That doesn't mean it was right or legal however. Unfortunately that has to be dealt with after the fact.

The letter starts that process so I don't think the General will be dismissed.... due to the chain of command. This is one of those gray areas that Trump is so good at exploiting.

We will have to see what happens.

[Cosmocat]

21. They should have gamed this out

Seen it coming and had their solicitor figure out how to cut it off when they tried to pull it.

[chowder66]

24. I'm going to take a wild guess that they probably went the way they did to minimize further escalation.

Not that it wouldn't have escalated anyway but I suspect we will learn more over time.

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know but they have lawyers that probably do.

[vanlassie]

29. You can't think Newsome's team hasn't

game- played this all year?

[MadameButterfly]

33. Maybe this is exactly how they want it to play out.

There has to be a problem before they can litigate it. We don't know if there are lawyers who have been working on this, just as the AGs of many states were preparing cases against Trump even before he took office.

[Kingofalldems]

13. Thank you.

[chowder66]

15. You're welcome.

[senseandsensibility]

14. So no coordination as required by law?

Not surprising of course.

[chowder66]

16. Par for the course.

[Figarosmom]

7. Precursor to asking the courts

To order them out?

[senseandsensibility]

8. That had occurred to me as well

You have to ask formally and in writing to start the process, I assume.

[BigmanPigman]

26. I've been listening to the lawyers on MSNBC and this is good

Newsom needed to do this first in order to be able to sue tRump. It's a process. Newsom knows what he is doing.

[Renew Deal]

17. It seems like there has been a lot of "getting on the record" since yesterday

Lawyer written statements from multiple California government officials. My guess is that those were made for when the investigations happen

[Initech]

9. Trump has gone fucking mad with power. He needs to be shown the door now.

[MadameButterfly]

34. That happened a long time ago

This is just the next step in his plan. I'm guessing he thought it would be easier to do

[EndlessWire]

39. Yeah, that's what I think.

He doesn't have a clue. He hates Cali, and thinks he can just do this with impunity.

[BurnDoubt]

11. Talking about Chips and Shoulders... Discipline!!!

[Mr.Bee]

18. Yeah, you tell him, Newsom!

This is our state, not his!
Tell him to go shout at New York!

[MadameButterfly]

35. Hey, California and NY in solidarity

He'll go after NY too, count on it

[Mr.Bee]

40. He can yell

at the moon for all I care!

[zorbasd]

22. Oh, com'on Newsom, please stop being so effing naive

Agent Krasnov, aka TACO BOI, could care f#cking less what and how you say it, he wants the perception and creative narrative, that he is kicking your ass in a power trip authoritarian brow beating of you, and succeeding.
Take control of your CA National Gaurd with your authority! His takeover is illegal, and thus lawless. Take control by your legal and constitutional right and decree.
GROW A PAIR!.....JFC!

[MadameButterfly]

36. Not naive

Laying the groundwork to win

[BannonsLiver]

45. He knows more than you.

[cachukis]

51. He has to play his cards wisely.

[kentuck]

23. Send it to the Supreme Court on emergency.

We will see just how much they believe in "states rights"?

[BigmanPigman]

25. Good! Now he can sue the tRump admin.

[AllyCat]

28. That's a start. Newsom can F all the way off with his

RW cozy upping. Time to turn this completely around governor.

[MoseShrute]

42. States rights?

It wasn’t very long ago when kristy noem (sp?) as governor got on tv and railed about President Biden threatening to deploy the National Guard in texas to prevent razor wire from being placed in the Rio Grande. She said that would be stomping all over texas’s “states rights.” Where’s that plastic-filled platypus now?

[returnee]

47. TSF pushes everything to the limit.

That’s how he finds how far he can go. It’s his habitual modus operandi, conscious strategy. Make him backtrack, just like on tariffs.

[AdamGG]

49. President Bonespurs is 5 days away from his military dictator's parade

and it's concerning that he'd probably like to declare martial law. Just saw the news that they're deploying 700 US Marines. I hope the protestors are super abundant, but that things remain peaceful.

[JCMach1]

50. Time for La Puebla to take the lead, not politicians

There are no white knights coming.


Unless you count the KKK with ICE badges.