section_path: 2025 federal deployment and legal challenge
section_name: 2025 federal deployment and legal challenge
paragraph_text: 2025 federal deployment and legal challenge
  
  In June 2025, the California National Guard became the subject of a high-profile legal and political dispute when President Donald Trump issued a memorandum federalizing up to 4,000 Guard members and deploying approximately 700 U.S. Marines to Los Angeles during protests following federal immigration raids. Governor Gavin Newsom strongly opposed the move, asserting that it exceeded presidential authority under Title 10 and was unnecessary given local law enforcement's control.
  
  On 9 June, the State of California filed suit in the Northern District of California, Newsom v. Trump, seeking to block the deployment via a temporary restraining order. The lawsuit contends the executive order violated 10 U.S.C. § 252, the Tenth Amendment, and the Posse Comitatus Act.
  
  On June 12, 2025 Judge Charles Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco issued a 36-page ruling, returning control of the National Guardsmen back to Gov. Newsom. The second paragraph of the ruling reads:
  
  "At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the
  
  President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not.
  
  His actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating
  
  the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control
  
  of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith."