A California judge rules against Trump’s use of the guard : NPR
Members of the California National Guard and the American Marines keep a federal building in June.
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A California federal judge ruled for the second time that the deployment by President Trump of the National Guard in Los Angeles has violated the law, declaring that he was exercising the application of the law which are prohibited for the army. But the district judge Charles R. Breyer delayed the implementation of his decision until September 12, during which the Trump administration could appeal.
The judge took evidence in a trial last month on the actions of the care in Los Angeles in a unit called Force Task 51. State lawyers pleaded with the lawyers of the administration as to the question of whether the troops have exceeded restrictions on the long -standing ban against the American soldiers who transported the application of civil laws.
“The file is filled with evidence according to which the operational force 51 has executed domestic law in these prohibited ways,” wrote Breyer in a 52 -page decision. He said that the troops had set up traffic blockages to help the federal agents with whom they were mixed. “Passers -by in several places and even federal officials at the trial could not distinguish the troops from the working group 51 from the federal law enforcement agents.”
He quoted as another example when the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the guard troops to patrol the MacArthur park as a force demonstration for the federal presence.
Breyer judged in June that the deployment of the guard was illegal for other reasons, but was immediately canceled by a jury of judges from the Court of Appeal which allowed Trump to keep control of the troops.
Trump said he had sent the troops to stop a rebellion and prevent demonstrators from blocking immigration agents. Californian officials argued that there was no rebellion and that the police could have managed the situation by itself.
This is a story in development that will be updated.
