Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the legal action at a press conference, and called the president's move to federalize the National Guard an "infringement" on state sovereignty

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump called in the National Guard with the expectation that it would "hopefully prevent and deter some of this violence.”

The state of California sued the Trump administration on Monday for deploying the state’s National Guard in Los Angeles amid protests against federal immigration raids