An escalating clash pits a Republican president looking to fulfill his mass deportation goals against a Democratic governor with White House aspirations hoping to mobilize opposition.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles who engage in violence will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had sued Trump in an attempt to block the deployment of federal troops in the city, which Newsom has called a “serious breach of state sovereignty.”

The public fight between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump keeps intensifying, with name calling, insults and accusations traded over television and social media networks.

California has challenged the administration’s move to call up the National Guard over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) will address Californians at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday as the standoff between the governor and the Trump administration over the Los Angeles riots continues to simmer. Newsom announced the address Tuesday evening,

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge's order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them in response to protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.

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.'

President Donald Trump unlawfully federalized thousands of members of California’s National Guard and must return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Newsom filed a lawsuit Monday in response to Trump ordering the deployment of roughly 4,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles following protests over his stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws. They were originally called in to protect federal buildings, and the president later ordered the deployment of 700 Marines.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office posted this video mocking two of President Trump's "Truth Social" posts about using the military to shut down riots in Los Angeles, by reading them in the voice of the evil galactic emperor from Star Wars.