A federal judge in San Francisco is weighing whether the Trump administration violated federal law by sending National Guard troops to accompany immigration agents on raids in Southern California. A three-day trial on the matter concluded Wednesday.

A federal judge in San Francisco seemed unconvinced after a three-day trial that the continued deployment of federalized members of California’s National Guard — who were originally deployed to Los Angeles in response to protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda — is lawful.

As National Guard troops patrol Washington, D.C., critics of President Trump's crackdown on crime in the nation's capital have slammed it as a "political ploy." NOTUS reporter Oriana González and Politico national political correspondent Brakkton Booker join "The Takeout" to analyze the situation.