Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer said he was “trying to figure out where the lines are drawn.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — About 200 Marines have moved into Los Angeles and will protect federal property and personnel, a military commander said Friday. Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, commander of Task Force 51, who is overseeing the 4,700 troops deployed, said Friday that the Marines have finished training on civil disturbance.

About 700 Marines and more than 4,000 National Guard have been deployed at the cost of $134 million. William Deverell is a professor of history at USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

AG Mayes and a coalition criticize the Trump administration's use of the California National Guard against protestors as unlawful and unconstitutional.

The political divide over President Donald Trump’s deployment of California National Guard troops to assist in managing ongoing protests in Los Angeles has extended to Nevada.

California officials argue that President Trump exceeded his authority by federalizing the National Guard without the consent of Gov. Gavin Newsom and by deploying Marines on American soil.

Democratic governors on Thursday slammed President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines to California amid protests over the administration’s immigration enforcement policies.

Those sweeps are part of a directive from President Trump to find immigrants living in the United States without legal status. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at a Tuesday news conference said a rally is planned for Tuesday night but that it is not expected to be as large as the protests in recent days,