JD Vance flies off to review the troops ... deployed by Trump to LA over ICE raid protests
Vice President JD Vance will travel to Los Angeles to tour facilities established for Trump administration's mass deportation efforts and the crackdown on protests against those efforts using National Guard soldiers and active duty Marines.
Vance's office said he will fly to the country's second-largest city on Friday to 'tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center, a Federal Mobile Command Center, meet with leadership and Marines, and deliver brief remarks.'
The announcement of his visit to California was made on Friday morning, and Vance's office did not release any information on the exact timing of his departure from Washington nor that of his planned arrival in California or the venue for his remarks.
Although theWhite House traditionally makes the president's and vice president's schedule public during travel within the United States, a source familiar with the administration's plans said the last-minute nature of the announcements and the lack of information about the trip was due to what they described as safety concerns.
Vance's visit to the country's second-largest city comes less than a day after the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals sided with the Trump administration by allowing President Donald Trump to maintain control over 4,000 National Guard soldiers called into federal service as a result of mass protests against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts.
California Governor Gavin Newsom had filed a lawsuit seeking to return the Guard to state control, arguing that Trump was bound to issue orders through him as the state's chief executive.
But the judges said Trump could maintain control while the case moves forward, citing a federal law allowing the federalization of the Guard when 'the president is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.'
They wrote that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth notifying the Adjutant General of the California National Guard, 'likely satisfied the statute's procedural requirement that federalization orders be issued 'through' the Governor.'
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