Overview

• The Marines, drawn from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, began guarding the Wilshire Federal Building on Friday after completing civil disturbance training
• The Ninth Circuit stayed Judge Charles Breyer’s ruling that Trump’s federalization of the California Guard violated the Tenth Amendment and set an appeal hearing for Tuesday
• President Trump deployed about 4,700 National Guard members and 700 Marines to Los Angeles without Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approval, triggering legal challenges and state condemnation
• L.A. protests sparked by aggressive ICE raids have entered their seventh day and are expected to spread to over 2,000 locations nationwide this weekend under the No Kings movement
• Some National Guard troops and military families report low morale and unease over domestic deployment even as officials emphasize that federal forces will not conduct arrests