Rob Bonta

And then today we got directly brought into the case with California.

300 federalized California National Guard people being moved 1,000 miles up north to Portland, where a judge had already said yesterday that the conditions on the ground absolutely do not justify the federalization of National Guard.

They don't justify the federalization of Oregon National Guard.

And so...

the federal government in its ingenious thinking said, well, her order, though it said there were no conditions to bring the National Guard, Federalized National Guard to Oregon, applied to the Oregon National Guard.

How about we bring in California National Guard?

Maybe that'll work.

And she was completely miffed.

I just listened in on the entire hearing.

First of all, thank you to my incredible team, the incredible teams in Oregon and Portland.

It was a team effort, folks working overtime.

Obviously, today's a Sunday, and democracy needs to be protected every day, and the rule of law does as well.

And she was really miffed.

Her first set of questions of the federal government were, how does this not violate my order from yesterday?

And I think she's right, you know, that this sort of super technical approach to try to bring National Guard in that's from another state and just minutes before the hearing commenced, we got word through a memorandum from Secretary Hegseth that the Texas

National Guard has been federalized, 2,000 of them with 400 of them being deployed to both Portland and Chicago.

So it is clear that

it's a sort of whack-a-mole approach from the federal government.

You stop the Oregon National Guard from being federalized, we'll bring in the California National Guard.

You stop the California National Guard from being brought up north, we'll bring in the Texas National Guard.