President Donald Trump hit a setback in his push to use the military in US cities when a California federal judge on Tuesday found his use of troops in Los Angeles was unlawful.
But a path to dispatching the National Guard in New York isn’t foreclosed.
What was Trump’s argument for sending troops to California?
To unilaterally dispatch the California National Guard to Los Angeles — against the wishes of Gov. Gavin Newsom, effectively federalizing a shared military reserve unit — Trump cited a federal law that permits the president to deploy the Guard in certain instances.
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