{"id":3687,"date":"2025-06-14T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2025-06-14T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:15:17","slug":"republicans-investigating-california-governor-and-la-mayor-over-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/republicans-investigating-california-governor-and-la-mayor-over-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans investigating California governor and LA mayor over riots"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US House Oversight Committee has accused the two Democrats of \u201cfalsely\u201d claiming they had the situation under control<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has begun an investigation into riots in California that have followed a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on illegal migrants. Committee members are accusing Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass of inaction and obstructing federal attempts to manage the unrest.<\/p>\n

The protests that erupted last week quickly devolved into riots, with participants torching police cars and US flags, blocking highways, and clashing with law enforcement officers. The latter have responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, with hundreds of arrests, as well as multiple injuries on both sides reported.<\/p>\n

The start of the probe was announced in a press release by the US House Oversight Committee on Friday.<\/p>\n

Chairman James Comer and Clay Higgins, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement, both Republicans, sent letters to Newsom and Bass, requesting that they hand over \u201cdocuments and communications\u201d<\/em> dated June 1, 2025 and later, relevant to the ongoing riots and the state authorities\u2019 response to them.
The letters also accused the two Democrats of falsely claiming that \u201cstate and local law enforcement had protests under control\u201d<\/em> and of \u201cfalsely blaming\u201d<\/em> President Donald Trump \u201cfor the actions of violent rioters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Riots over immigration raids in LA continue despite curfew (VIDEOS)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Newsom previously sued the Trump administration over its decision to deploy the National Guard to California. On Thursday, a US district judge ruled the move illegal, only for a Court of Appeals to issue a temporary injunction against that ruling hours later. For now, the National Guard remains under Trump\u2019s control, and not that of the state authorities, until a hearing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Responding to the committee\u2019s request, Governor Newsom\u2019s press office said in a post on X on Saturday that the records requested \u201cwill include some highly unusual communications from the White House.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re good with transparency. Will the White House say the same?\u201d<\/em> the message added.<\/p>\n

In an acrimonious exchange throughout the week, Newsom described Trump\u2019s decision to deploy the National Guard as a \u201cstep toward authoritarianism\u201d<\/em> and a \u201cserious breach of state sovereignty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump, in turn, urged the \u201cgrossly incompetent\u201d<\/em> California governor to \u201cget his act together\u201d<\/em> and to \u201capologize\u2026 for the absolutely horrible job\u201d<\/em> he has allegedly done.<\/p>\n

The US president also suggested he would back a proposal by White House border czar Tom Homan to have Newsom arrested for allegedly obstructing federal immigration enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US House Oversight Committee has accused the two Democrats of \u201cfalsely\u201d claiming they had the situation under control The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has begun an investigation into riots in California that have followed a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on illegal migrants. Committee members are accusing Governor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}