Johnson backs Hegseth warning about possible Marine deployment to anti-ICE riots

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parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, R, said no.
In his appearance on “this week” from ABC, Johnson was asked to respond to President Donald Trump sending the National Guard forces to Los Angeles.
Trump said that the federal government will follow the control of the National Guard in California if the governor of the state is Gavin News and the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass “they cannot take their jobs” to protect Los Angeles from riots and looting.
“I have no concern about it at all,” Johnson told ABC Jonathan Karl. “I think the president did exactly what he needs to do. These are federal laws and we have to preserve the rule of law, and this is not what happens. Gavin New Tohoum has shown the inability to do what is necessary there, so the president interfered.
President Trump sends the National Guard as anti -iceberg riots in Los Angeles
One of the officers is working to put a fire during a protest in Compton, California, on Saturday, June 7, 2025, after federal immigration authorities performed operations. (AP Photo/Ethan Swpe)
Karl also asked about a message published by Higseth, who wrote on Saturday that the Ministry of Defense was mobilizing the National Guard “immediately to support federal law enforcement in Los Angeles,” If the violence continues, the naval infantry will also be mobilized in active service in the Bandalton camp – it is at a state of high alert. “
“One of our basic principles is to preserve peace through power,” Johnson said in response to Sunday. “We are doing it on foreign affairs and local affairs as well. I don’t think this is heavy. I think this is an important sign …”
“Do you not think that sending the Marines to the streets of the American city is heavy?” Karl intervenes.
Johnson said: “We must be ready to do what is necessary, and I think the notification that this may happen may have an impact of deterrence,” Johnson said.
Newsom responded to the threat of HegSeth to X, writing: “The Minister of Defense is now threatening to spread the active naval infantry on American soil against its citizens. This is distorted behavior.”
“Moche = allowing your city to burn and enforce the law to attack,” Higseth returned on Sunday morning. “There is a great power to protest, but Al -Safri is not tolerance to attack federal agents who do their job.”
“The National Guard and the Marine Corps, if necessary, stand with the ice,” added the Minister of Defense.

One of the demonstrators is waving an American and Mexican flag during a protest in Compton, California, on Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swpe)
In his initial message on Saturday, Higseth said: “The attacks on violent mobs on ice and enforcement in federal law to prevent the removal of illegal foreigners from the soil are designed;
In general, the American army is not allowed to implement duties to enforce the civil law against American citizens except in times of emergency.
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War Law in the eighteenth century is called the rebellion law is the main legal mechanism that the president can use to activate the military or national guards during times of rebellion or unrest. But Trump did not call for the rebellion law on Saturday.
Instead, the president’s memo is called “members of federal service and National Guard units under 10 USC 12406 to protect IECE and the US government employees temporarily who are making federal functions, including federal law enforcement, and federal property protection, in sites where protests against these jobs occur or are likely to occur on the basis of assessing the current threats and planned operations.”
Federal law in the memo allows the president to provide the National Guard forces under three circumstances: when the United States is invaded or at the risk of invasion; When there is a rebellion or a risk of rebellion against the authority of the US government, or when the president is unable to “execute the laws of the United States”, with the regular forces. But the law also says that the orders of these purposes “are issued through state rulers.”

Los Angeles County, the mayor of Sriffs, stands during a protest in Compton, California, on Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swpe)
The National Guard is a hybrid entity that serves federal and state interests.
It is not immediately clear whether the president can revitalize the National Guard forces without the ruler of that state.
It is also not clear whether military personnel can be spread.
Under the Posse Comitaus Law, troops cannot be used according to federal orders to enforce local law, but state -control units are a box. Federal law was enacted in the late nineteenth century during the reconstruction period after the civil war, limiting the federal government powers to deploy the US military for the reasons for local law enforcement “with the exception of cases and under the circumstances explicitly delegated from the constitution or the Congress law.”
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Trump threatened to use the rebellion law during the peak of riots in 2020 in the wake of the death of George Floyd, but in the end he did not. He posted federal agents on many American cities, including Portland, where rioters tried to violate a federal court, clashed with law enforcement officers and targeted the building using Molotov cocktails and other projectiles for more than 100 consecutive nights.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2025-06-08 17:33:00