No president has ever federalized the National Guard for purposes of responding to potential future civil unrest anywhere in the country.”

California officials will sue President Donald Trump for taking control of the state's National Guard and deploying troops to the streets of Los Angeles, a move they said escalated tensions in the nation's second-largest city.

Tensions between the Trump administration and California intensified this weekend as President Donald Trump decided to deploy 2,000 National Guard members to the Los Angeles area, a move the state’s Democratic leaders cast as an unnecessary escalation amid protests over the administration’s immigration policies.