Judge denies Newsom’s request to block Pentagon from sending more troops to CA
A federal judge denied Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request to immediately block the Pentagon from ordering federal and state troops to suppress the protests in Los Angeles, and ordered a hearing for later this week.
Northern California District Judge Charles Breyer ordered a hearing for 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. His order came hours after Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta asked him to temporarily restrain Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from ordering more California National Guard members to protect federal buildings and employees carrying out deportation raids.
“Federal antagonization, through the presence of soldiers in the streets, has already caused real and irreparable damage to the City of Los Angeles, the people who live there, and the State of California,” Bonta wrote in his request for a temporary restraining order.
“They must be stopped, immediately.”
Bonta and Newsom said Monday they were suing to block Hegseth from taking over the Cal Guard and sending 2,000 members and 700 U.S. Marines to quell protests. The White House has claimed they did so over Newsom’s objections because protesters put federal buildings and immigration officials carrying out deportation raids at risk.
In their request for the restraining order, state lawyers argued that the federal administration’s move was not actually to protect federal employees but to increase capacity for carrying out immigration raids, a core part of President Donald Trump’s political agenda.
“They will work in active concert with law enforcement, in support of a law enforcement mission, and will physically interact with or detain civilians,” the motion read. “These unlawful deployments have already proven to be a deeply inflammatory and unnecessary provocation, anathema to our laws limiting the use of federal forces for law enforcement, rather than a means of restoring calm.”
After Bonta announced the first lawsuit, Hegseth and Trump responded by ordering another 2,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles despite not having available food, shelter or supplies for the first round of Guardsmen, according to photos from the San Francisco Chronicle.
This story was originally published June 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM.
