California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday that President Donald Trump’s ongoing attempts to seize control of state National Guard troops and deploy them to Democratic-led cities are part of a larger plan to consolidate executive power and normalize the sight of armed forces on American streets.

Bonta’s comments came one day after a federal judge barred Trump from dispatching hundreds of California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, and as Illinois and Chicago filed a separate lawsuit to prevent the deployment of hundreds of Texas National Guard members to Chicago. Trump has also sent troops to Memphis, Tenn. , over the objections of local Democratic officials but with the support of the state’s Republican governor.

On Monday, Trump said he would be willing to inv

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