Overview
- The Los Angeles mayor lifted the weeklong nighttime curfew after protests triggered by ICE immigration raids subsided.
- Governor Gavin Newsom has initiated legal action to regain state control over the 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines deployed by President Trump.
- A federal judge ruled the troop deployment illegal but allowed a stay pending an appeal lodged by the Justice Department.
- Authorities made nearly 600 arrests during intermittent violence that included looting, arson of robotaxis and clashes with police.
- The deployment of federal troops without the governor’s consent is the first such use of the National Guard in California since 1965.