Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and California Attorney General Rob Bonta asked a federal court Tuesday to temporarily block President Donald Trump from using the National Guard and military as law enforcement in Los Angeles as violent protests continue in the city.

State leaders asked a federal judge for a temporary restraining order by 4 p.m. EDT. They alleged Trump’s “use of the military and the federalized National Guard to patrol communities or otherwise engage in general law enforcement activities creates imminent harm to State Sovereignty, deprives the State of vital resources, escalates tensions and promotes (rather than quells) civil unrest.”

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California leaders filed the emergency request in the same lawsuit they filed against Trump on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The state said Trump and his administration violated the 10th Amendment and federal law by deploying the National Guard without Newsom’s consent.

Newsom said in a statement on Tuesday that Trump is “behaving like a tyrant” by using the National Guard and Marines to quash violence that has emerged from protests against immigration raids beginning last week.

Trump ordered the National Guard to Los Angeles over the weekend, the first time it was deployed without a governor’s consent since 1965, and sent Marines to the city on Monday.

Bonta said Trump’s actions “inflame tensions and antagonize communities” and described the president’s orders sending the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles as “illegal and dangerous.”

“We’re asking the court to immediately block the Trump administration from ordering the military or federalized national guard from patrolling our communities or otherwise engaging in general law enforcement activities beyond federal property,” Bonta said in a statement Tuesday.

Trump has defended his actions, saying in the Oval Office earlier Tuesday that, “if we didn’t get involved, right now, Los Angeles would be burning.”

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The president did not rule out using the Insurrection Act “if there’s an insurrection” and said the National Guard will remain in Los Angeles “until there’s no danger.”

Judge Charles Breyer, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton and the brother of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, was assigned to California’s lawsuit.