After President Trump reaffirmed San Francisco as his next target for National Guard deployment over the weekend, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday that his office is ready to mount a legal fight immediately.
“If he deploys the National Guard to San Francisco, we’ll be in court within hours if not minutes,” Bonta told reporters Monday following Trump’s promises to send federal forces to the city in an appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures .
“We’re going to go to San Francisco. The difference is, I think they want us in San Francisco,” the president told Fox host Maria Bartiromo.
Bonta pushed back, arguing that the president lacked legal grounds for the action. “There has to be an emergency, there has to be a rebellion, there has to be an invasion, there has to be th