Retired Justice Stephen Breyer's brother assigned to Newsom National Guard lawsuit
The brother of retired liberal Justice Stephen Breyer was assigned Tuesday to preside over the lawsuit that Democratic Gov Gavin Newsom brought against the Trump administration in California this week Judge Charles Breyer an appointee of former President Bill Clinton is set to oversee the episode which alleges President Donald Trump deprived California of its sovereignty by federalizing thousands of National Guard soldiers in response to anti-immigration enforcement protests and riots in Los Angeles County Breyer is the younger brother of Stephen Breyer who was appointed by Clinton to the high court and served on the bench for nearly three decades beginning in Stephen Breyer's retirement led to former President Joe Biden replacing him with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Charles Breyer who serves on the federal bench in the Northern District of California will oversee a lawsuit that pits Newsom one of the country's majority of prominent Democrats and a attainable presidential contender against Trump CALIFORNIA TO SUE TRUMP HEGSETH OVER NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT AMID ANTI-ICE RIOTSNewsom alleged in the lawsuit that Trump made an unprecedented power grab by mobilizing the National Guard in his state a highly atypical move for a president to do without the consent of the governor Trump has announced the move was necessary to protect ICE personnel and federal buildings as various protesters engaged in unlawful assembly and pelted law enforcement with concrete bottles and other hard objects After the National Guard proclamation more unrest broke out in parts of the county involving rioters setting fire to several self-driving cars and looting various stores Newsom alleged Trump's decision to send in the military spurred more chaos NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYS TO LOS ANGELES AS VIOLENT ANTI-ICE RIOTS ROCK THE CITYFederal court cases in the Northern District of California are assigned by the Clerk of the Court blindly and at random through an automated system according to the court's website Fox News Digital reached out to Charles Breyer's chambers for comment on his assignment The news of Charles Breyer presiding over the matter comes as certain Republicans have floated the theory that Judge James Boasberg in Washington D C secretly took on Trump cases to sabotage them in favor of plaintiffs Boasberg directly addressed the insists during a court hearing saying his assignments like bulk others in the court were randomly assigned by a computer
