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Trump Will Go To Supreme Court If Newsom Wins Fight Over LA Troops Deployment Again; Appeals Court Considers Temporary Restraining Order
The rule of law was at the heard of the appeals court hearing between lawyers for Donald Trump & Gavin Newsom today over POTUS' take over of troops in LA
In an appeals court hearing Tuesday before a three-judge panel, a Department of Justice lawyer bluntly said that they intend to go straight to the SCOTUS if their POTUS client once again loses control to Gov Newsom of being able to put the Guard troops on the streets of Los Angeles. The deployment of an initial 2,000 troops under an obscure statute, with online assurances from the Secretary of Defense that Marines could later be sent to LA too, on June 8 saw a rise not a decline in protests and violence in the streets around federal buildings where ICE detained immigrants were being held. “Are we in a world that’s so different from normal conditions as to justify an extreme measure lie militarizing the situation and brining in the National Guard?” Samuel Harcourt, a lawyer for California Attorney General’s office questioned the appeals court trio today, noting that if things were as bad in LA as the Trump administration claimed they could have invoked the Insurrection Act.
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