Politics
NEW: Alan Dershowitz Predicts Trump Will Be Victorious In Riot Lawsuit
Constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz predicted on Monday that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump over the Los Angeles riots will go down in flames, just like his city.
Speaking on his program “The Dershow,” Dershowitz expressed doubt that the U.S. Supreme Court would “second guess” Trump’s decision to federalize thousands of California National Guardsmen and deploy them to the epicenters of riots taking place across L.A. Gavin quickly sued Trump, accusing the president of “unlawfully” ordering soldiers under his control to put down the unrest.
“The Supreme Court will not second-guess the President of the United States on this issue,” Dershowitz said. “They will say, whether right or wrong, the president had the authority to make this decision and he had the authority to make it over the lack of consent of the governor,” Dershowitz explained.
“Let’s be clear, there was violence. You can see it on television; there were bombings, fire bombings, and burnings of Teslas and other self-driving cars. There were rocks being thrown at ICE officers. There were threats against ICE officers, threats against their families. Was it a full-blown insurrection? No.”
In addition to 4,000 National Guard soldiers, Trump has sent 700 Marines to L.A. to end riots now in their fifth day after U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement officers arrested upward of 150 illegal immigrants over the weekend. The operation quickly drew protestors who morphed into rioters, hurling cinderblocks at ICE agents and smashing their way into stores while looting anything they could carry.
Fox News’ Bill Melugin showed footage from inside one of the ICE vehicles pelted with rocks on Saturday, including the aftermath from rocks shattering a windshield. One immigration official said he suffered an injury from the attack.
Dershowitz predicted the high court would likely rule against Newsom and determine that President Trump was within his rights to activate the National Guard under the auspices of protecting civil rights.
“My prediction is: the lawsuits will fail. They’ll work in the federal district court,” Dershowitz said. “You’ll get, you know, the governor of California will find a federal district judge probably one he was involved in appointing and you’ll get some district court judge saying, maybe even issuing an injunction saying, the president of the United States can’t do this.”
“It’ll be appealed immediately, but when the case gets to the Supreme Court in the United States, they would have no choice or little choice, but to hold that the judiciary cannot interfere with the discretionary judgment of the executive head of the executive branch, the president, about the necessity for sending in troops,” Dershowitz added.
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Newsom, who is believed to be positioning himself for a presidential run in 2028, has accused President Trump of aggravating the violence by calling up National Guardsmen under his control.
“Donald Trump is reckless, he’s immoral,” Newsom said on Monday. “He’s acting unlawfully. He’s putting people’s lives at risk. And it’s my job to clean up Donald Trump’s mess, because he’s making it by the hour.”
