OPINION:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom sprinted to the federal courthouse in San Francisco, demanding immediate removal of the troops President Trump called out to protect besieged Department of Homeland Security agents. Even the mayor acknowledged the unrest was bad enough to place downtown Los Angeles under a curfew.
Democrats see no need to blame the lawbreakers burning self-driving cars and helping themselves to the latest iPhones at the Apple Store when they can shift responsibility to the White House. “It’s a crisis that Donald Trump has created, and he’s doing it to distract from his failed agenda,” Sen. Alex Padilla asserted.
Conveniently for Mr. Newsom, the task of deciding legal questions raised by the deployment fell to Judge Charles R. Breyer, brother of the retired, liberal Supreme Court justice, both appointed to the bench by President Clinton. Less conveniently, his honor was so unpersuaded by Mr. Newsom’s insistence on an