President Donald Trump has built his presidency around stretching the bounds of presidential authority, and his response to protests over an immigration crackdown in Los Angeles is no exception.

Calling President Trump a threat to the American way of life, Governor Gavin Newsom depicted the federal military intervention in Los Angeles as the onset of a much broader effort by Trump to overturn political and cultural norms at the heart of the nation’s democracy.

The California Governor has sued the U.S. President over the mobilization of the National Guard, calling it “an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”

The former vice chief of the National Guard has denounced President Donald Trump’s deployment of troops in Los Angeles as “bad for all Americans concerned about freedom of speech and states’ rights.” Trump made the extraordinary decision to send 2,

The Trump administration announced that the National Guard would be deployed to deal with demonstrators facing off with authorities in Los Angeles.