Source: The Federalist
by Ben Weingarten
“In the dead of night, an unelected federal judge made himself president and subordinated the duly elected commander-in-chief to a governor. That is the effect of Senior Judge Charles Breyer’s ruling that President Trump’s federalizing of California’s National Guard in the face of the Los Angeles riots was ‘illegal’ …. Trump federalized the National Guard under 10 U.S.C. § 12406. The law says that ‘if there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion’ against the U.S. government, or the president ‘is unable with regular forces to execute the laws of the United States,’ he may take command of the National Guard of a state and deploy it ‘in such numbers as he considers necessary’ to ‘suppress the rebellion or execute those laws.'” [editor’s note: There was no “rebellion;” Trump federalized the guard to protect a violent gang (ICE) violating the “supreme law” of the United States – TLK] (06/16/25)