(Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
Gov. Gavin Newsom – Just Wrong
Governor Newsom’s actions indicate that he believes he enjoys some sort of veto power over presidential powers. Well, last Thursday, a federal appeals court put things in order. In a unanimous decision, the court allowed President Trump to “maintain command of the California National Guard in response to the Los Angeles protests, blocking a lower court that ordered him to return those forces to the state’s control.”
According to WSJ’s Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall (brought to readers via the Journal’s James Freeman), a three-judge panel allowed a high degree of deference over President Trump’s decision to federalize the Guard. Under that standard, “we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority,” stated the panel.
In early June, as you must remember, protests broke out in Los Angeles against immigration raids. Continue the WSJ authors,
Trump signed an order federalizing some 4,000 members of the Guard. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, sued, arguing that the situation fell far short of invasion, rebellion or breakdown in civil order, the conditions set out under federal law for the president to deploy those forces…
The appeals panel observed that Trump appeared to rely validly on a federal law that allows him to bring Guard members into service when he “is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”
Disabling Newsom’s Progressive Platform
This appeals panel comprises two Trump-appointed judges and one Biden-appointed judge.
Presented from the WSJ as “undisputed facts:”
The next day, on June 7, protesters continued to interfere with federal enforcement operations by a Homeland Security Investigations Office in Paramount, California, and continued to damage federal property. In a confrontation that lasted over seven hours, the protesters blocked traffic and used shopping carts to barricade the street. Some attacked ERO and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers by “box[ing] in” the officers and “throwing mortar-style fireworks with multiple explosions” at them. Other protesters “engage[d] in dangerous behavior such as throwing rocks and other objects, including a Molotov Cocktail at deputies,” “burning a vehicle,” and “vandalizing property.”
Protesters Interfere with Federal Enforcement
One ERO officer was trapped in her law enforcement vehicle while protesters surrounded it, violently pounded and shook it, and threw stones at it. One CBP officer suffered a shattered wrist caused by a thrown object. Protesters also damaged the perimeter fence of a federal building and three government vehicles.
At another federal building, protesters attacked a federal van carrying multiple noncitizens and officers, rocking the vehicle and smashing its windows. The building had to be closed for most of the day and remained closed the next day, disrupting the operations of many federal agencies working in the building.
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