In a major relief for President Donald Trump, a US federal judge has denied the requests by California to pass an immediate restraining order against the deployment of National Guards in Los Angeles that would have prohibited the Trump administration from using Marines and National Guard troops to enforce laws in the state, including immigration enforcement.
Senior US District Judge Charles R. Breyer set a hearing in the matter on Thursday. The judge didn’t entertain an emergency motion filed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to immediately restrict the US president from the use of troops in Los Angeles to curb the demonstrators and maintain law and order. The judge would hear the plea of the state on Thursday over a request for a temporary restraining order.
Donald Trump is behaving like a tyrant, not a President.
By turning the military against American citizens, he is threatening the very core of our democracy.
I’m asking the court to immediately block these unlawful actions. https://t.co/WN11SGXrld pic.twitter.com/rh1okkamhN
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) June 10, 2025
About 700 US Marines have reached Los Angeles on the orders of President Trump and are waiting to be deployed in city sites to protect federal buildings and law enforcement officers in the wake of anti-immigrations protests.
The Marines would join about 4,000 National Guard troops who were activated by Trump over the weekend without the consent from Governor Newsom. US officials said there were approximately 2,100 National Guard troops in the Greater Los Angeles area on Tuesday.
Defending his decision of sending troops to LA, Trump in a Truth Social post said “If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now, much like 25,000 houses burned to the ground in LA due to an incompetent Governor and Mayor.”
The deployment of 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, who are based at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California would be the first instance in over three decades the troops would be mobilized inside the United States to respond to a civil unrest.
California Governor Newsom, in his expedited temporary restraining order, requested the court to block the plans of the federal government “to use Marines and federalized National Guard to enforce immigration laws and other civil laws on the streets of our cities.” However, the Trump administration opposed the plea and called it “legally meritless”.
