Thousands of demonstrators gathered across California on Saturday as part of a nationwide wave of “No Kings” protests, opposing immigration raids and what organizers describe as a turn toward authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.

California urged a federal appeals court to leave in place for now a lower court’s order that would limit the Trump administration’s use of National Guard troops in Los Angeles to respond to protests over the president’s immigration raids.

The legal battle over President Trump's deployment of the California National Guard in Los Angeles will continue Tuesday in a federal appeals court in San Francisco. A judge ruled the move was illegal but the case was put on hold until it can go before an appeals court on Tuesday.

In a Sunday tirade zeroing in on Democratic leaders, President Donald Trump said he wants to "expand efforts to detain and deport illegal Aliens in America's largest cities." His Truth Social post attempted to distinguish between those he called "REAL Americans" and those "Radical Left Democrats" to whom he attributed a long list of sins,