There was no official announcement from the #Trump admin that the #California #NationalGuard was being called up & sent to #Oregon, just as was the case when #Illinois’ governor made a similar announcement Saturday about #troops in his state being activated.
Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement that CA personnel were on their way Sunday & called the deployment “a breathtaking abuse of the law & power.”
“The commander-in-chief is using the US #military as a political weapon against
American #citizens,” Newsom said in the statement. “We will take this fight to court, but the public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless & #authoritarian conduct by the president of the #UnitedStates.”
#law #NationalGuard #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #judiciary #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
