""The Founders designed our government to be a system of checks and balances," Judge Breyer wrote in his ruling. "[This administration], however, make[s] clear that the only check they want is a blank one." As the New York Times reports, the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling in a defeat for the Trump administration, six months after Trump declared victory via the same court, in a conditional ruling regarding this same deployment of troops."
"At one point in July, Trump had federalized 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines in defiance of Governor Gavin Newsom, ostensibly to protect federal property and agents, but also as a clear act of political theater and show of force in the face of protests against aggressive ICE actions taken against immigrants in LA. Trump and other administration officials characterized the situation in LA as far more chaotic, and larger, than it was in reality."
President Trump posted that federalized troops might return "perhaps in a much different and stronger form" when crime increased. The Ninth Circuit ordered the remaining 300 National Guard troops in Los Angeles returned to the governor of California and upheld a district court directive that the administration withdraw its deployment as illegal. District Judge Charles Breyer emphasized the Founders' design of checks and balances and criticized the administration's approach. In July the president had federalized roughly 4,000 Guard members and 700 Marines ostensibly to protect federal property, a move also described as political theater. An earlier June Ninth Circuit decision deferred to presidential determinations without resolving the merits of indefinite federalization.
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