"The president's troop deployment violated the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits "the use of the US military to execute domestic law," according to today's ruling from US District Judge Charles Breyer. Nearly 140 years later, Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth deployed the national guard and a cadre of US marines to LA, "ostensibly to quell a rebellion and ensure that federal immigration law was enforced," Breyer wrote."
"Following a brief bench trial last month, the judge determined that the administration illegally and "systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armour) 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." "In short, defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act," Breyer wrote."
"The Trump administration is blocked from "deploying, ordering, instructing, training, or using the national guard currently deployed in California, and any military troops heretofore deployed in California, to execute the laws, including but not limited to engaging in arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic control, crowd control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting as informants," according to the ruling."
US District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the president's troop deployment violated the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which forbids using the US military to execute domestic law. The deployment sent the National Guard and US Marines to Los Angeles to quell an alleged rebellion and enforce federal immigration law. Breyer found there was no rebellion and civilian law enforcement could respond. The administration systematically used armed soldiers and military vehicles for protective perimeters, traffic blockades, crowd control, and to demonstrate a military presence. The order blocks troop use to execute laws in California and is paused until September 12 for appeal.
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