Governor Newsom to Trump: We’re suing instantly for those who ship troops into San Francisco

“There is no basis to send National Guard troops to San Francisco. No emergency. No rebellion. No invasion. Not even unrest,” mentioned Attorney General Bonta. “President Trump has long abandoned any pretenses for the illegal federalization and deployment of California’s National Guard. He does not care about satisfying the conditions of the law; he cares about himself, and he cares about power. Trump has made no secret of his intentions: To use our National Guard as his own Royal Army and our cities as a training ground for the military. This is outrageous, indefensible—and most importantly illegal. San Francisco may be the President’s latest target, but California is no stranger to the President’s political games and unconstitutional tactics. We’re ready to go to court immediately if the President follows through on this latest illegal plan.”

Trump’s off his rocker

In latest weeks, Trump has publicly acknowledged his intention to unlawfully ship within the National Guard to San Francisco, together with saying on October 19 that “they want us in San Francisco,” and on October 15 “strongly recommending at the request of government officials, which is always nice, that you start looking at San Francisco” to deploy the navy.

In truth, group companions and native leaders have vehemently disagreed with the President and have mentioned no to this home navy intervention within the metropolis  – public security is up and crime is down, all due to vital investments and significant partnerships between state and native leaders.

Since the deployment of troopers to Los Angeles in June, the federal authorities has shifted their reasoning and broadened their mission, dispatching a whole bunch of federalized National Guard members past Los Angeles to Portland and Chicago.

The federal authorities has now renewed the federalization of those California guard members to at the very least February 2026.

California takes care of its personal communities

The California National Guard already helps San Francisco in a number of methods, together with via its Counter Drug Task Force with over two dozen guardsmembers assigned to San Francisco, via metropolis strategic planning in help of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, and prosecution help inside the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. 

Local officers don’t need the federalized National Guard in San Francisco, even when Donald Trump has satisfied himself in any other case. 

The fact is that Donald Trump hates California’s progress. California’s partnership with native communities, particularly in San Francisco, has helped scale back crime and improve public security by seizing illicit medication and firearms off the streets. With crime dropping statewide, the Governor introduced the subsequent section of his crime-fighting efforts in July — deploying new California Highway Patrol (CHP) crime suppression groups to work straight with native legislation enforcement in main cities and areas throughout the state — San Diego, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Specifically within the Bay Area, CHP has helped native legislation enforcement make an estimated 200 arrests, get better 500 stolen automobiles, and seize 30 illicit firearms since increasing the state’s partnership crime-fighting efforts. These numbers embrace the statewide whole of greater than 950 arrests, over 550 stolen automobiles recovered, and almost 60 unlawful firearms seized throughout the assorted areas to this point this yr.

The work these officers do collectively each day is all in service to their communities and to enhance security general. In 2023, the state started working with native communities to focus on fentanyl trafficking, disrupting the availability of the lethal drug within the metropolis, and holding the operators of drug trafficking rings accountable. Through collaborative efforts between the California Department of Justice, the California Highway Patrol, the California National Guard, the San Francisco Police Department, and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, officers seized almost 700 kilos of fentanyl and CHP issued 6,200+ citations for criminality, made 500+ arrests, and recovered 115+ stolen automobiles.

California has invested $1.7 billion since 2019 to combat crime, assist native governments rent extra police, and enhance public security. In 2023, as a part of California’s Public Safety Plan, the Governor introduced the largest-ever funding to fight organized retail crime in state historical past, an annual 310% improve in proactive operations focusing on organized retail crime, and special operations across the state to combat crime and enhance public security.

In August, Governor Newsom signed into legislation the most significant bipartisan legislation to crack down on property crime in modern California history. Building on the state’s sturdy legal guidelines and file public security funding, these bipartisan payments provide new instruments to bolster ongoing efforts to carry criminals accountable for smash-and-grab robberies, property crime, retail theft, and auto burglaries. While California’s crime charge stays at near-historic lows, these legal guidelines assist California adapt to evolving felony ways to make sure perpetrators are successfully held accountable.

Don’t let Trump make you suppose in any other case, crime is down in San Francisco

According to the Major Cities Chiefs Association, general violent crime in main California cities is down 12.5% in 2025 in comparison with 2024. The largest general declines in violent crime have been reported by the police departments in Oakland (30%) and San Francisco (22%). 

According to a different information set launched by the California Department of Justice, almost each main crime class, together with violent crime and homicides, dropped in 2024. 

The leads to California’s main Bay Area cities cross over into general success for the state as California’s 2024 murder charge is now the second lowest it has been since at the very least 1966. 

And when evaluating crime charges in San Francisco earlier than the COVID-induced crime surge, between 2019 and 2025, there was a forty five% lower in homicides and 40% lower in robberies.

Update on cross-country authorized actions

While the litigation is ongoing – and the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments on Wednesday in an attraction from the trial choose’s order blocking the federalization and deployment of the Guard. 

• California: Following a bench trial, a federal choose dominated in August 2025 that President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard in Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act. This legislation restricts the navy’s involvement in home legislation enforcement and was central to a lawsuit filed by Governor Gavin Newsom and the state of California in opposition to the Trump administration concerning the federalization and deployment of those troops. That ruling is on maintain pending the federal authorities’s attraction.
• Illinois: In October 2025, a federal district court docket issued a brief restraining order to dam the deployment of federalized troops, together with the Texas National Guard, to Chicago. This motion adopted a lawsuit filed by state and metropolis leaders in opposition to the Trump administration to forestall such a deployment. While a federal appeals court docket later permitted the troops to stay federalized and mustered, it upheld the prohibition in opposition to their deployment inside Illinois. The Trump administration has since appealed this choice to the Supreme Court. Four judges, together with two appointed by Republicans, have already dominated in opposition to President Trump and located that no info supported his deployment of the National Guard to Chicago. On Monday, California filed an amicus temporary within the United States Supreme Court in help of Illinois’ place in Trump v. Illinois. 
• Oregon: A federal lawsuit was filed by Oregon and Portland, and later joined by California, to dam the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland. A district court docket choose initially blocked the federalization and deployment in early October 2025, however the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ninth Circuit later “stayed” that restraining order to the extent it will de-federalize the Guard troops. The order blocking deployment of Guard troops in Oregon stays in impact for now.  Litigation is ongoing in that case. 

Trump’s militarization of Los Angeles 

On June 7, for the primary time in our nation’s historical past, the President invoked 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize a state’s National Guard over the objections of California.  

President Trump and Department of Defense Secretary Hegseth transferred 4,000 members of California’s National Guard—one in three of the Guard’s whole energetic members—to federal management to serve in a civilian legislation enforcement position on the streets of Los Angeles and different communities in Southern California.  

California introduced go well with to problem that unprecedented motion. The litigation is ongoing – with a listening to earlier than the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday.