Judge rules Trump's deployment of troops to Los Angeles violated federal law

Newsom v. Trump proceedings concludes

Judge questions limits of president's authorization successful proceedings implicit National Guard L.A. deployment 02:15

Washington — A national tribunal successful California ruled Tuesday that the Trump medication violated national instrumentality erstwhile it deployed members of the National Guard and active-duty U.S. Marines to Los Angeles earlier this summertime successful effect to protests against migration enforcement operations.

In a 52-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer recovered that the president and his medication violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a 1878 instrumentality that prohibits the usage of the subject for home instrumentality enforcement. Breyer blocked the Trump medication from deploying oregon utilizing the National Guard presently deployed successful California, and immoderate subject troops successful the state, for civilian instrumentality enforcement.

"The grounds astatine proceedings established that Defendants systematically utilized equipped soldiers (whose individuality was often obscured by protective armor) and subject vehicles to acceptable up protective perimeters and postulation blockades, prosecute successful assemblage control, and different show a subject beingness successful and astir Los Angeles," Breyer wrote. "In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act."

His determination restricts the usage of work members to prosecute successful arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures and postulation and assemblage control.

Breyer's ruling came aft helium held a three-day trial successful the lawsuit brought by California Gov. Gavin Newsom successful June. Newsom sued aft Mr. Trump announced that helium would beryllium deploying members of California's National Guard to Los Angeles to quell protests successful effect to migration enforcement operations taking spot successful the area.

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