Trump welcomes appeal court ruling that he can keep national guard in LA – US politics live

Millions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration on Saturday at roughly 2,000 sites nationwide in a demonstration dubbed “No Kings”, planned for the same day as the president’s military parade and birthday.

Interest in the events has risen since Trump sent national guard and US Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles to tamp down mostly peaceful protests against ramped-up deportations.

“We’ve seen hundreds of new events on the No Kings Day map since the weekend,” said Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups behind the “day of defiance”. “We’ve seen hundreds of thousands of people register for those events.”

A website for the protest cites Trump’s defying of the courts, mass deportations, attacks on civil rights and slashing of services as reasons for the protests, saying: “The corruption has gone too far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.” Actions are set for the country’s largest cities and small towns, dotting the map from coast to coast – part of a strategy to show that opposition to Trump exists in all corners of the US.

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Kilmar Ábrego García, the migrant returned to the US last week after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, is due in court on today to enter a plea to criminal charges of taking part in a conspiracy to smuggle migrants into the US.

The Justice Department’s decision to return him to the US to face criminal charges is a potential off-ramp for Trump’s administration from its escalating confrontation with the judiciary over whether it complied with a court order to facilitate Ábrego García’s return, Reuters reports.

The criminal proceeding will provide Ábrego García with due process by giving him the right to contest the charges contained in a grand jury indictment returned in secret on May 21. Still, his lawyers say his return to face criminal charges does not absolve the Trump administration of responsibility for wrongfully deporting him.

Ábrego García’s hearing on the criminal charges is scheduled to begin at 10 am CDT before US Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to entering his plea, Abrego Garcia is expected to contest a bid by federal prosecutors to have him detained pending trial.

Donald Trump has urged Iran to make a deal over its nuclear programme, saying in a post on his Truth Social platform that there was still time for the country to prevent further conflict with Israel:

“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to “just do it,” but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done.

I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it.

Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!

There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end.

Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!

We are covering all the developments over Israel’s attack on Iran in our Middle East crisis blog which you can see here:

Good morning, and welcome to our blog covering US politics amid continuing protests across the country, legal wrangles over the national guard deployment, preparations for a huge military parade in Washington and, along with all that, a major escalation of the conflict in the Middle East as Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear and military sites. So stay with us for all the developments.

Donald Trump has welcomed an appeals court ruling that temporarily returned control of California’s national guard to him, claiming it would keep Los Angeles from “burning to the ground”. It blocked an earlier ruling by a federal judge that the president’s use of the guards to suppress protests in LA was illegal and banned it. The appeals court said it will hold a fuller hearing on the matter on Tuesday.

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Trump has posted on Truth Social this morning

The Appeals Court ruled last night that I can use the National Guard to keep our cities, in this case Los Angeles, safe. If I didn’t send the Military into Los Angeles, that city would be burning to the ground right now. We saved L.A. Thank you for the Decision!!!

In other news:

• Trump has urged Iran to make a deal over its nuclear programme, saying in a post on his Truth Social platform that there was still time for the country to prevent further conflict with Israel. He wrote: “Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”

• Trump has said he will attend the G7 summit in Canada which starts on Sunday. It is set to be the first major global gathering of his second term. Looking to avoid a dust-up, Canadian PM Mark Carney had set the agenda on largely uncontroversial themes such as building global supply chains for critical minerals. That now seems likely to be upended amid the Israel-Iran escalation.

• Alex Padilla, a Democratic California senator and vocal critic of the Trump administration’s immigration polices, was forcibly removed and handcuffed as he attempted to ask a question at a press conference held by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, in Los Angeles on Thursday.

• Preparations are underway for an extravaganza of American military might featuring tanks and other armored vehicles rolling through Washington, thousands of soldiers marching the streets and military aircraft flying overhead on Saturday. It will be a celebration of the US army’s 250th anniversary, which also happens to coincide with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.