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June 8, 2025 - Following orders from the president and bypassing consent from California Governor Gavin Newsom, approximately three hundred National Guard troops began arriving in Los Angeles.
The National Guard is often deployed to respond to natural disasters and is typically only federalized when a governor makes a request.
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The last time a state's National Guard was deployed without a governor's consent was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the National Guard to protect civil rights activists marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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In a joint statement, twenty-two Democratic governors called Trump's decision "an alarming abuse of power."
Characterizing the deployment as "unlawful" and "a serious breach of state sovereignty," Governor Newsom formally requested that the Trump administration rescind its deployment of Guard troops.
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