The Trish Regan Show - BOMBSHELL: Feds Take Legal Action Against Los Angeles and Mayor Bass!

Episode Date: July 6, 2025

The federal government has launched a major lawsuit against Los Angeles and its radical mayor, putting California in serious legal and political trouble. This is a CLIP from the LIVE Trish Regan Show Episode 190 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Karen, Bass, and Los Angeles, they're getting sued by the DOJ because they're not falling along with any of the rules. They think they can stand in the way of ice again. I mean, what is going on with these people? I'm blown away because I'm just sort of like, you know, it's really not what you want to pin your whole party on. This and the trans stuff. I'm sorry. Like, it just doesn't play with the rest of the country. I don't think it ever will.

no matter how much sort of academia, you know what, you giant fetus. It never will. And listen, they've gone after New York, too, and they'll go after L.A. And I have a feeling they're going to win this all day long because you cannot stand in the way of the federal government, as they found out, right, when Donald Trump came in and federalized the National Guard. But remember what Pam said to New York. This is a new DOJ, and we are taking steps to protect Americans, American citizens,

and angel moms, like the mom's. standing right behind me who you're going to hear from in a moment. There's something called the naturalization clause. It's important to remember. And it's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4, the Congress shall have power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization. And guess what that does? It gives Congress the authority to determine who can become a citizen and who can enter and remain in the country. So that's kind of a big deal. It's kind of a big deal because it means Karen Bass and the city of Los Angeles, or Mandani, should he win, Zohorn, Zorhan, Zohan.

Zohran, Zorhan. I'll get it right eventually. He doesn't have the right to say, okay, well, we're going to allow these people here. And if things get out of hand, as we saw, they almost did just a couple of weeks ago with the no Kings protest, guess what, Donald Trump's coming in, He's got his National Guard ready, willing and able to go. Sanchez, as you know, Jonathan, is 500 square miles. The problem that we had over a couple of days was about one square miles.

It was about four blocks in Los Angeles. You know, and it wasn't that, I mean, after you have a major sporting event, you might have a lot of celebration, and then there's a few people that hang around and create confusion. There was vandalism for a couple of days. Our police department, sheriff department, and other surrounding agencies had the situation completely under control. And by the way, the only thing the National Guard is doing here is protecting one building. That's all. They're not involved in crime control.

So if you look at why we have peace in Los Angeles, it's because of me as the mayor, our police chief, our sheriff. We had the situation completely under control. This was unnecessary, which is why I call it an experiment. They are testing to see how far can they go as the federal government in seizing power away from the state and local authorities. Wow. So let's get the camera back up here and rolling. Hopefully you guys can hear me. There is something called the power to call up the National Guard.

Okay. So the power to call up the National Guard, Title 10, U.S. Code 12406 allows for the President to federalize National Guard units to enforce. federal laws or protect federal property even when state officials don't request it. And so this is important because the National Guard can be called up. And by the way, it has been. I mean, think about throughout history. I mean, the most prominent example, really, that I can think of would be 1962 George Wallace, Alabama, right, where they had to send in the National Guard and they had to federalize

the National Guard. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, tried to get in the way of this. Karen Bass has tried to get in the way of this. And guess what the court decided? The Ninth Circuit made the decision that no, Donald Trump had every right to call in the National Guard because they weren't doing enough to take care of their people. So just fascinating stuff as we really are digging in to the sort of legalese, if you would, that afford these different powers.

I mean, there's also the Commerce Clause. And again, let's make sure the camera is on. Let's see. Hopefully you guys can hear me as we go for the camera. There we go. But you've got the Commerce Clause Section 8, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3. The Congress will have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. So once again, enabling them to control the immigration situation.

And as we look to whether or not the feds might do something vis-a-vis the New York City mayor, I would just say go back to everything that we're talking about here. Go back to all of this because AOC's in trouble. She's under federal agreement. this Mandani thing is going to drive me nuts. It's correct that. She's under federal investigation. You've got Mamdani who has not yet won,

but Donald Trump's saying, look, if he does win and he wants to stand in the way of things, we'll arrest him. And that's part for the course. But that's if he wins, okay? Again, I think that people have to be concerned about that. It is a very real possibility that he wins.