At a Board of Supervisors hearing this week, Mayor Lurie said the city is already preparing a coordinated response team, involving public-safety leaders, the city attorney’s office, and department heads, to monitor and respond to any federal action. “We’ve been thinking about the possibility of the National Guard being deployed to San Francisco since the first day of my term,” he said.
As the rhetoric and litigation escalate, the conflict between state and federal power is playing out in real time. California’s leaders have drawn a clear line: if President Trump sends troops into San Francisco without legal justification, they will move swiftly into court. The question now is whether the federal government will test that line—and if so, how far the courts will go to enforce the boundaries of domestic military deployment in our democracy.
