California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom says the federal military intervention in Los Angeles marks the onset of a much broader effort by President Donald Trump to overturn political and cultural norms at the heart of the nation’s democracy.

At a peaceful vigil in downtown Los Angeles, interfaith community leaders came together for prayer, support and healing.

California Governor Gavin Newsom blasts the federal government's response to anti-immigration raid protests as "purposefully inflammatory".

The Pennsylvania senator warned that his party would lose “the moral high ground” if it did not go further in condemning acts of destruction or violence, which local officials said were under control.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to immediately block the Pentagon from ordering federal and state troops to suppress the protests in Los Angeles, asking for a federal judge’s ruling hours after he filed Tuesday morning for an emergency injunction.

White House officials say that Trump has a mandate to carry out his hard-line immigration agenda and that politically, battling it out with a blue state is a winning issue for them.

President Trump responded by sidestepping the state’s Democratic governor and deploying 2,000 National Guard members to the city. He portrayed the demonstrations as an existential threat to the country, and called the protesters “insurrectionists,” in what may become a rationale for him to invoke the Insurrection Act.

California officials are filing a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump in response to the administration’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard to confront immigration protesters in the streets in Los Angeles.

Hundreds of protesters in San Francisco marched in the Mission District to protest the ongoing ICE raids in California. The protest began at Mission and 24th around 6 p.m. "The people in our federal government,