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Judge rules Trump illegally deployed National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles By America-Today September 4£¬2025
LOS ANGELES ¡ª A federal judge in California ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated a 19th-century law barring the use of soldiers for civilian law enforcement activities when it mobilized 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles in June. "The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles," U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said in a 52-page filing."In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act," he said. Hours after Breyer's ruling, California filed a request for a preliminary injunction asking the court to remove the remaining 300 National Guard members stationed in Los Angeles. |
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