President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in response to protests in Los Angeles this weekend was the first ...

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For the first time in 60 years - since LBJ sent federal troops to Selma to protect American citizens, including MLK, defying ...

President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, over the objection of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, represents a structural threat to democracy. The law on which Trump relied ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard (and later, Marines) to Los Angeles, over the objection of ...

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President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, over the objection of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, ...

The protest, one of several planned this week, comes as the Trump administration continues to push for increased ICE ...

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The last time a president deployed the National Guard without a request from a governor was an entirely different era in ...

It was the first time a president had called in National Guard troops without a state governor’s permission since 1965. At that time, president Lyndon B. Johnson stepped in, in an effort to protect ...