A federal choose has blocked President Donald Trump‘s use of the Nationwide Guard and different members of the army in Los Angeles and the encircling space.
Trump federalized the Nationwide Guard to be deployed to Los Angeles in June, amid protests of the administration’s immigration raids. Newsom objected to the deployment, saying that infected the state of affairs, and challenged the president’s motion in court docket.
U.S. District Decide Charles Breyer dominated that the Trump administration was in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the usage of the army to execute home regulation.
The choose wrote, “The proof at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed troopers (whose identification was usually obscured by protecting armor) and army automobiles to arrange protecting perimeters and site visitors blockades, have interaction in crowd management, and in any other case reveal a army presence in and round Los Angeles. In brief, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act.”
The choose famous that 300 members of the Nationwide Guard nonetheless stay in Los Angeles, whereas Trump and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth have “acknowledged their intention” to name troops to different cities, together with San Francisco and Oakland, “thus making a nationwide police pressure with the President as its chief.”
The choose granted an injunction to California Governor Gavin Newsom and the state.
