Former Attorney General Bill Barr slams Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit over Trump’s National Guard deployment, calling the claims ‘nonsense.'

The temporary restraining order request alleges the deployment “escalates tensions and promotes (rather than quells) civil unrest.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration early Monday morning over the president’s deployment of 300 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, even as the LAPD chief admitted Sunday his cops “are overwhelmed” by the violent anti-ICE riots taking over the city.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to stop the National Guard and Marines from aiding immigration raids in Los Angeles, amid ongoing state and federal immigration policy disputes in other Democratic-led states.

A federal court on Thursday heard Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request for a temporary restraining order to curtail just what the federalized National Guard troops and Marines sent to California by the Trump administration can do. It’s unclear if U.S District Judge Charles R. Breyer would also rule on Thursday, June 12.

How did Trump send in National Guard Troops and Marines to L.A.? An explainer of presidential authority and the limits of military law enforcement.

Donald Trump has just been ordered by a federal judge to "return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith." In an order handed down just a couple of hours after a pitched hearing in San Francisco between Department of Justice lawyers and Golden State attorneys,