Posted on 06/10/2025 6:22:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
California Governor Gavin Newsom is playing a dangerous game—one part gaslighting, one part constitutional ignorance, and all parts political theater.
After violent anti-ICE riots swept through Los Angeles and now San Francisco—complete with federal agents injured, cars torched, and highways blocked by destructive insurrectionists flying the flags of other nations—President Trump exercised his clear constitutional authority and federalized portions of the California National Guard under Title 10.
Newsom’s response? He called—completely lacking any hint of circumspection—the deployment “unlawful” and “a direct assault on state sovereignty”. He even labeled it “purposefully inflammatory.”
That’s not just wrong—it’s nearly laughable, save that it actually gives aid and comfort to those wreaking havoc in the streets of his state. And it’s revealing. When a governor refuses to do his duty, he doesn’t get to cry foul when the president steps in to do it for him.
In fact, it’s the governor’s rhetoric that’s inflammatory. Far from restoring calm and control, it’s throwing fuel on the fire.
Let’s be clear: the president’s authority to nationalize the Guard is not new, novel, or remotely in question.
Here’s why Newsom is wrong on the law:
The President of the United States may federalize the National Guard—often colloquially called “nationalize”—under several clear constitutional and statutory authorities:
“The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.”
Once federalized, the Guard is no longer under the governor’s command.
This authorizes the President to activate the Guard if federal law is obstructed—as it clearly was in Los Angeles. Rioters targeted ICE...
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This is crazy to see isn’t it.
The liberal view seems to be that Trump started the riots because of sending in the national guard.
The rioters themselves are not responsible for the riots. Instead, Trump is to blame. Apparently their view is that rioters wouldn’t riot, if Trump hadn’t responded as he did.
Newsom isn’t merely not doing his job. He is complicit in a national Democratic Party uprising. Arrest him.
I really wish the u se of militias was used again. There are millions who would jump at the chance to knock some heads.
Perhaps, in the afterlife, former Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus can remind Goodhair about the finer points of Presidential power regarding the National Guard.
Our Constitution is truly an amazing and world-changing document.
Well, he literally ASKED Tom Homan to arrest him, soooooo...
Newsome:
1. Non-stop, inflammatory anti-ICE rhetoric to foment discord and violence
2. To trump, “YOU started it.”
3. “I’m not going to put a stop to this. And the Fed better not try to, either.”
Trump:
1. “I’m sending National Guard and more ICE to get things under control.”
Newsome to Trump:
1. “You better get the guard and additional ICE people outta here.”
2. “And, BTW...when the dust settles, you better get your a%@ out here with Fed dollars to rebuild my cities”.
History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. Trump is defending the legacy of Ft Sutter against the unBEARable Newsom.
That would be what is referred to as a "civil war."
Pray to God it doesn't come to that.
I have Karen Bass in the “First-California Pol-in-Handcuffs” Pool.
LOL. He could also explain that it is not very smart to piss off a President.
BTTT
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