Republican attorneys general accuse California of excusing 'lawlessness'

FIRST ON FOX: Nearly each Republican attorneys wide blasted California's Democratic leaders connected Tuesday successful a associated statement, accusing them of condoning transgression behaviour and saying they near President Donald Trump with nary prime but to activate thousands of National Guard soldiers.

"In California, we’re seeing the results of enactment that excuses lawlessness and undermines instrumentality enforcement," 26 attorneys wide wrote successful the statement, archetypal provided to Fox News Digital. "When section and authorities officials won’t act, the national authorities must."

The attorneys wide said Trump's determination to federalize the National Guard to code anti-immigration enforcement riots and protests that broke retired successful parts of Los Angeles County implicit the play was the "right response."

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A protester waves the Mexican emblem successful beforehand of a burning Waymo conveyance during an anti-ICE protestation successful downtown Los Angeles, California, connected Jun. 8, 2025. (Getty Images)

Their remarks basal successful nonstop opposition to those of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and different Democrats crossed the country, who wide condemned Trump's determination to nonstop the subject into California arsenic an unnecessary escalation.

Newsom sued Trump implicit the determination and accused the president of stripping California of its sovereignty. Presidents federalizing the National Guard, which is simply a state-based subject unit that falls nether the dual power of governors and presidents, is seldom carried retired without the consent of a governor. 

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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, who led the attorneys wide successful issuing the statement, told Fox News Digital successful a little interrogation helium felt Newsom was "gaslighting" the nationalist by saying California's section and authorities instrumentality enforcement had the unrest nether power and did not request Trump to intervene.

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"We each saw what was happening," Carr said. "There were national instrumentality enforcement officers that were being attacked by mobs. And successful fact, I work articles wherever section instrumentality enforcement were saying they were overwhelmed and they needed help. My question is, wherefore successful the satellite would helium not judge the assistance of the national authorities astatine a clip wherever determination was mob rule, wherever determination was arson that was taking place, wherever assaults were occurring, alternatively of coddling the criminals that are doing this again?"

Carr said those opposed to the Trump administration's migration raids could "peacefully disagree with what the national authorities is doing."

Attorney General of Georgia Christopher M. Carr gives a code earlier U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler's arrival, successful Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., Nov. 3, 2020.  (REUTERS/Brandon Bel)

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Newsom, for his part, alleged that Trump exacerbated the riots, echoing a presumption immoderate criminal justness advocates instrumentality that an contiguous amusement of unit successful effect to intensifying protests is an ineffective approach.

In Newsom's lawsuit, attorneys wrote that Trump's determination was not lone unwise but besides an unlawful and "unprecedented usurpation of authorities authorization and resources."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the California Attorney General's Office for comment.