WASHINGTON (June 9, 2025) – CNN reports that protests in Los Angeles continue for a fourth day. People gathered in LA on Saturday to protest immigration aids.
On Sunday, the Trump administration deployed California’s National Guard without request from California governor Gavin Newsom to control crowds.
For more context on the matter, please consider Laura A. Dickinson, the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. Dickinson is an expert on national security, human rights, the law of armed conflict, and foreign affairs privatization. Author of Outsourcing War and Peace, Dickinson examines the impact of this trend on core public values, and outlines mechanisms for protecting these values in an era of privatization.
Dickinson told the Wall Street Journal, “This is highly unusual, It is unclear what legal authority the president is using to deploy the troops. If he is invoking the Insurrection Act, he has to issue a proclamation explaining that. And that act is used as a last resort.”
If you wish to speak with Professor Laura Dickinson, please contact Media Relations Specialist Shannon Mitchell at shannon [dot] mitchell
gwu [dot] edu (shannon[dot]mitchell[at]gwu[dot]edu).
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