Watch Los Angeles mayor sound alarm on Trump's military invasion

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appeared on MSNBC Wednesday, calling President Donald Trump’s egregious use of the military to stifle protests against his immigration raids “completely unnecessary.”

“What are they going to do? The 100 National Guard soldiers that are [in] downtown Los Angeles are guarding one federal building. So there is no need for this,” Bass said, warning that this federal overreach is just the beginning.

“I do believe, though, that this is all part of an experiment that's taking place in Los Angeles,” she continued, adding that she’s spoken with mayors across the country who are concerned that their cities will be invaded next.

“And the test is, what happens when the federal government intervenes and takes power away from a governor and a mayor?” Bass said.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/11/2327297/-Watch-Los-Angeles-mayor-sound-alarm-on-Trump-s-military-invasion

[Ocelot II]

1. Ironically, all this is a bit like what started the Civil War in 1861.

The Southern states took umbrage at what they perceived as a tyrannical federal government overstepping its power to control states' internal affairs - in that case, the odious practice of forced labor of enslaved people in their agricultural operations. Here, it's "states' rights" all over again (specifically California, with more likely to follow), but here a state is objecting to the federal government's heavy-handed intervention in its refusal to abuse minority immigrant people. There won't be the same kind of civil war involving actual secession, but we'll be seeing a big fat states' rights argument all over again. And my money is on the next Dem nominee being a governor.