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A federal judge in California has ruled the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles this summer was unlawful.
The decision arrives as the administration seeks to utilize National Guard troops in efforts to curb crime in other U.S. cities and bolster immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer stated that President Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the federal government’s authority to employ military force in domestic affairs.
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly asserted that “a rogue judge is trying to usurp the authority of the Commander-in-Chief to protect American cities from violence and destruction.”
The ruling is currently stayed until September 12.
The Trump administration is expected to appeal the decision.
“The President is committed to protecting law-abiding citizens, and this will not be the final say on the issue,” Ms. Kelly stated.
Governor Gavin Newsom released a statement saying “the court sided with democracy and the Constitution.”
President Trump deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June in response to protests against immigration enforcement actions.
The White House contended the deployment was necessary to quell violence, but California officials maintained that local law enforcement could manage the situation without military intervention.
The President has also deployed hundreds of National Guard troops in Washington D.C. and is considering dispatching troops to Chicago as early as this week.
Judge Breyer’s order applies specifically to California, but may foreshadow legal challenges for the administration’s plans to employ the Guard to enforce its policies.
Following President Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles, Governor Gavin Newsom sued the administration for alleged violations of the Posse Comitatus Act.
The law, initially enacted in 1878, prohibits using the U.S. military to execute domestic laws or assist in their execution, with limited exceptions such as authorization by Congress.
Judge Breyer determined that the Trump administration’s use of the National Guard in Los Angeles violated these restrictions.
He cited activities by soldiers such as “setting up protective perimeters, traffic blockades, crowd control, and the like” as prohibited under the law.
“President Trump’s recent executive orders and public statements regarding the National Guard raise serious concerns as to whether he intends to order troops to violate the Posse Comitatus Act elsewhere in California,” Judge Breyer wrote.
He cautioned that President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked “creating a national police force with the President as its chief.”
He barred the National Guard from executing the following laws including “engaging in arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic control, crowd control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting as informants.”
A separate legal challenge from California sought to regain control of the state’s National Guard contingent, after Governor Newsom alleged President Trump had unlawfully circumvented him to deploy the troops.
Judge Breyer, who also presided over that case, ruled in Governor Newsom’s favor, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of President Trump in June.
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