Trump administration is deploying National Guard troops to L.A. - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-07/what-is-title-10-
trump-homan-national-guard

President Trump is deploying National Guard troops to Los Angeles, despite 
objections from Gov. Gavin Newsom, by invoking presidential powers that 
have only rarely been used.

A leading constitutional scholar said it is “chilling” for the president 
to take over the California National Guard to put down protests.
The Trump administration announced Saturday that National Guard troops 
were being sent to Los Angeles — an action Gov. Gavin Newsom said he 
opposed. President Trump is activating the Guard by using powers that have 
been invoked only rarely.

Trump said in a memo to the Defense and Homeland Security departments that 
he was calling the National Guard into federal service under a provision 
called Title 10 to “temporarily protect ICE and other United States 
Government personnel who are performing Federal functions.”

What is Title 10?
Title 10 provides for activating National Guard troops for federal 
service. Such Title 10 orders can be used for deploying National Guard 
members in the United States or abroad.

Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation’s leading constitutional law 
scholars, said “for the federal government to take over the California 
National Guard, without the request of the governor, to put down protests 
is truly chilling.”

“It is using the military domestically to stop dissent,” said Chemerinsky, 
dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. “It certainly sends a message as to 
how this administration is going to respond to protests. It is very 
frightening to see this done.”

Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s “border czar,” announced the plan to 
send the National Guard in an interview Saturday on Fox News as protesters 
continued confronting immigration agents during raids.

“This is about enforcing the law,” Homan said. “We’re not going to 
apologize for doing it. We’re stepping up.”

“We’re already ahead of the game. We were already mobilizing,” he added. 
“We’re gonna bring the National Guard in tonight. We’re gonna continue 
doing our job. We’re gonna push back on these people.”

Newsom criticized the federal action, saying that local law enforcement 
was already mobilized and that sending in troops was a move that was 
“purposefully inflammatory” and would “only escalate tensions.”

The governor called the president and they spoke for about 40 minutes, 
according to the governor’s office.

Other rarely used powers
Critics have raised concerns that Trump also might try to invoke the 
Insurrection Act of 1807 to activate troops as part of his campaign to 
deport large numbers of undocumented immigrants.

The president has the authority under the Insurrection Act to federalize 
the National Guard units of states to suppress “any insurrection, domestic 
violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” that “so hinders the 
execution of the laws” that any portion of the state’s inhabitants are 
deprived of a constitutional right and state authorities are unable or 
unwilling to protect that right.

The American Civil Liberties Union has warned that Trump’s use of the 
military domestically would be misguided and dangerous.

According to the ACLU, Title 10 activation of National Guard troops has 
historically been rare and Congress has prohibited troops deployed under 
the law from providing “direct assistance” to civilian law enforcement — 
under both a separate provision of Title 10 as well as the Posse Comitatus 
Act.

The Insurrection Act, however, is viewed as an exception to the 
prohibitions under the Posse Comitatus Act.

In 1958, President Eisenhower invoked the Insurrection Act to deploy 
troops to Arkansas to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision ending racial 
segregation in schools, and to defend Black students against a violent 
mob.

Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, wrote in a 
recent article that if Trump were to invoke the Insurrection Act “to 
activate federalized troops for mass deportation — whether at the border 
or somewhere else in the country — it would be unprecedented, unnecessary, 
and wrong.”

Chemerinsky said invoking the Insurrection Act and nationalizing a state’s 
National Guard has been reserved for extreme circumstances in which there 
are no other alternatives to maintain the peace.

Chemerinsky said he feared that in this case the Trump administration was 
seeking “to send a message to protesters of the willingness of the federal 
government to use federal troops to quell protests.”

In 1992, California Gov. Pete Wilson requested that President George H.W. 
Bush use the National Guard to quell the unrest in Los Angeles after 
police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. That was 
under a different provision of federal law that allows the president to 
use military force in the United States. That provision applies if a state 
governor or legislature requests it.


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