Live Updates: California Will Sue Trump Over National Guard Deployment, Newsom Says

 

Live Updates: California Will Sue Trump Over National Guard Deployment, Newsom Says

California leaders demanded that President Trump withdraw troops from Los Angeles, after police scuffled with crowds protesting the administration’s immigration crackdown.

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/09/us/la-protests-immigration-ice-trump

 

Here’s the latest.

California officials will sue President Trump for taking control of the state’s National Guard and deploying troops to the streets of Los Angeles, a move they said escalated tensions in the nation’s second-largest city. The legal challenge, announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom, was expected to be filed on Monday morning, as protests were planned in more cities over federal immigration enforcement and the arrest of a union leader.

 

Clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement agents in California intensified over the weekend. By Monday morning, the detritus of the confrontations, some of them violent, littered streets in downtown Los Angeles: broken barricades and crushed water bottles, upturned traffic cones and burned cars — including several Waymos, a robot taxi company in the city.

 

Since Friday, officials said, about 150 people have been arrested in Los Angeles. About 60 others were arrested on Sunday in San Francisco, where a solidarity protest turned violent. The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, told CNN on Monday morning that while she condemned the violence, she said it was contained “to a few streets” downtown. “This is not citywide civil unrest taking place in Los Angeles.”

 

On Saturday, President Trump took the extraordinary step of calling up 2,000 National Guard troops to quell the protests, making rare use of federal powers and bypassing the authority of Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, who has struck a defiant tone. The governor has asserted that the deployment order was “unlawful,” and called on the Trump administration to return the command of the guard to his office.

 

As state officials urged protesters to be peaceful, videos taken Sunday so far have shown that the National Guard troops have largely avoided clashing with demonstrators, and most of the sprawling city kept to its usual sunlit rhythms.

 

Here’s what else to know:

 

Nationwide demonstrations: Protests were planned on Monday in more than a dozen cities, including New York, Chicago and Sacramento, where the Service Employees International Union of California will demonstrate outside the state capitol, its leaders said. A prominent labor official was arrested in demonstrations on Friday.

 

Trump doubles down: In a series of social media posts around midnight, Mr. Trump defended his decision to send in the National Guard, saying it was “looking really bad in L.A.” He and his F.B.I. director showed no sign of easing the administration’s aggressive response, even as California leaders accused Mr. Trump of attempting to inflame the situation for political gain. Read more ›

 

Marching in solidarity: Some of the people demonstrating in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday said they were first- or second-generation immigrants showing solidarity with their neighbors or family members. Read more ›

 

Mexican flags: Latin American flags emerged as emblems in the weekend protests. Trump officials have cast flag wavers as insurrectionists and seemed to assume that they are not U.S. citizens. But for many protesters who are American citizens, the flag signifies pride in their roots. Read more ›

 

Journalists injured: Several journalists have been injured while covering the protests in Los Angeles, including a television reporter who was struck when a law enforcement officer fired a nonlethal projectile while she was on the air. Video showed the moment that the reporter, Lauren Tomasi of 9News Australia, was hit.