The Trump administration faces a legal challenge to its deployment of the military to protests. Tensions flared after President Trump sent troops, and protests spread to other U.S. cities.

The standard to dispatch the military to a state is not simply in the eye of the beholder. There are limited legal circumstances in which a president is supposed to deploy the military domestically.

Steve Woolford has been a resource counselor with the GI Rights Hotline for two decades and says the hotline has been receiving more calls than usual.

It may be tempting to seek, in Donald Trump’s incursion on Los Angeles, some evidence that ... national guard units and sending the military to cities run by Democrats, including Portland ...

"If he can successfully militarize LA without significant political consequences, Baltimore is next," said Angela Angel of BLM PAC.

The state claimed the president improperly deployed the Guard and Marines to Los Angeles without the governor’s consent or input amid immigration protests.

By Omar Younis, Brad Brooks, Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -U.S. Marines deployed to Los Angeles made their first detention of a civilian on Friday, part of a rare use of military force to support domestic police and coming ahead of national protests over President Donald Trump's military parade in Washington.