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

The governor bragged about working with ICE in California but said that President Trump was “trying to gin things up to create problems” at protests.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta outlined their lawsuit against Donald Trump and his order to federalize the National Guard, now in Los Angeles to respond to protests of the administration’s ICE raids.

Locked in an online showdown with Trump over the L.A. protests, Newsom is styling himself as an internet-era champion of the left.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has formally requested that the Trump Administration remove the National Guard from L.A.. The soldiers’ insertion into the city was a retaliatory measure made by the President late Saturday night in response to ongoing protests against city-wide raids by U.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to immediately block the Pentagon from ordering federal and state troops to suppress the protests in Los Angeles, asking for a federal judge’s ruling hours after he filed Tuesday morning for an emergency injunction.

The California governor has clashed with Trump in recent days over the president's deployment of the National Guard to quell protests in Los Angeles.