The state's Democratic governor is proceeding with a lawsuit challenging the president's use of the troops to quell protests in Los Angeles.

WASHINGTON – The possibility of the Trump administration sending National Guard troops on immigration raids outside their own state could cause a legal clash between states – and with the ...

Gen. Gregory Guillot, the leader of U.S. Northern Command, made the request to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, proposing ...

President Donald Trump can maintain control of the California National Guard, a federal appeals court has ruled, overturning an earlier decision that found the President’s mobilization of the ...

President Trump has called up 2,100 National Guard members and 700 Marines. Military members are unable to conduct law enforcement missions but can be used to provide support for officers.

MSNBC Legal Correspondent Lisa Rubin joins MSNBC’S Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the argument Trump’s lawyers presented in the appeals court hearing on deploying the California National Guard: that ...

It seems clear that Trump is attempting to tighten his authoritarian vise grip on the American people, and the nation’s ...

At a hearing June 12, attorneys for California argued Trump's federalization of national guard troops was unlawful. Newsom has said he wasn't consulted before Trump decided to take control of the ...

The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who found Trump acted illegally when he activated the soldiers over opposition from Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The appeals court ruled on a challenge to the president's authority to deploy troops against the wishes of state and local officials.

Some legal experts and Democratic lawmakers question why Trump didn't deploy the Guard to quell the Jan. 6 Capitol assault but is doing so in LA.

President Trump said the National Guard was needed to put down a “form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States." Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said ...