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June 12, 2025 09:51 AM UTC

Colorado Says Hell No To Mobilizing National Guard

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by: Colorado Pols

As KDVR FOX 31’s Maddie Rhodes reports, while controversy rages over President Donald Trump’s questionable federalization of California National Guard troops in response to demonstrations against immigration enforcement raids in the Los Angeles area, Colorado officials are making it pre-emptively clear that our state wants no part in Trump’s hard-power power play:

Colorado joined several other states in requesting a temporary restraining order after President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard for the ICE protests in California.

On Wednesday, Attorney General Phil Weiser filed a court brief with 20 states saying that Trump’s deployment of California’s National Guard without the governor’s consent is “unlawful, unconstitutional, and undemocratic,” and it’s requesting a temporary restraining order.

This comes after Trump activated more than 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines after continued protests in Los Angeles calling for an end to immigration enforcement raids. The court brief is asking for a temporary restraining order in support of California’s request for a court order blocking the president’s deployment of its National Guard.

Adds Colorado Newsline’s Lindsey Toomer:

Shelby Wieman, spokesperson for Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, said Polis “has been clear” he would not support “federal overreach to activate the National Guard outside of regular order,” as the Colorado National Guard plays an important role in helping the state and others with natural disasters and emergencies as needed.

“There is absolutely no need to take away National Guard units from the states, and any engagement with National Guard on this topic must include Governors, who serve as commanders in chief in most instances for their Guard,” Wieman said in a statement.

A spokesperson for the Colorado National Guard said Tuesday it “has not received an official request for support” from the federal government.

Both California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have condemned the mobilization of National Guard to confront anti-ICE protesters as not only unnecessary but counterproductive, citing the increase in aggression from protesters concurrent with the deployment of military forces into the city over the weekend. Here in Denver, a large but generally peaceful immigration protest Tuesday saw a few arrests after a side group of marchers left the area of the Colorado State Capitol and tried without success to walk into I-25 at Broadway–which if you know the geography of downtown Denver is some two miles south of the Capitol. The point is that, despite getting a bit rowdy after dark, nothing has occurred in either city to justify the deployment of National Guard troops.

Since the beginning of protests in Los Angeles late last week, Republicans nationwide have breathlessly hyped the situation and loudly condemned protests as “riots” regardless of whether the protests met that definition to support Trump’s militaristic response in Los Angeles. With or without evidence of unrest that would justify it, MAGA Republicans are actually hoping that Trump takes his overreaction to these protests to the next level by invoking the Insurrection Act–which would allow military troops to carry out law enforcement duties, otherwise known as martial law.

If that’s not something you want to see in America without the damn good reasons for which it was intended, Saturday’s “No Kings Day” rallies are the times and places to make that peacefully known. And it’s even more important than ever that Saturday’s protests be peaceful and lawful.

There’s no overstating it. Fundamental questions about our country’s future are in the balance.

One thought on “Colorado Says Hell No To Mobilizing National Guard”

Chickenheed says:

June 12, 2025 at 12:19 pm

I've come to consider the intent of the 2nd Amerndment to be the basis for state-specific national guards. The Bill Of Rights was created to convince states that this new federal government would not take too much agency away from the states.

If the federal government can just decide, for absolutely no reason at all, to use a state's national guard against that state then what's the point of even having state-specific national guards?

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