Police and nationalist guards instrumentality measures arsenic thousands of anti-ICE protesters are gathered extracurricular of the Federal Building successful Los Angeles, California connected June 9, 2025 amid protests implicit migration raids.
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President Donald Trump connected Wednesday appealed a national judge's ruling, which recovered that his deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles to prosecute successful instrumentality enforcement activities was illegal.
The entreaty came a time aft Judge Charles Breyer said that Trump's deployment of thousands of Guard troops and hundreds of Marines successful June violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which mostly bars U.S. subject forces from engaging successful home instrumentality enforcement actions.
Breyer's ruling barred the 300 remaining Guard troops successful Los Angeles from making arrests, searching locations, and conducting assemblage power portion they are stationed successful Los Angeles.
His ruling, which came successful effect to a suit by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, besides prohibits akin instrumentality enforcement duties by Guard troops oregon subject forces anyplace other successful the state.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media successful the Oval Office astatine the White House connected September 2, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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The justice had paused the enforcement of his determination successful San Francisco national court to springiness the Trump medication clip to record an entreaty of the ruling with the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
The entreaty comes arsenic Trump is considering whether to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago and different cities, aft having precocious done truthful successful Washington, D.C., to woody with what helium claimed was rampant transgression there.
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Breyer's ruling noted Trump's anterior threats to deploy the Guard and troops successful different cities, penning that doing truthful would make "a nationalist constabulary unit with the President arsenic its chief."
"President Trump's caller enforcement orders and nationalist statements regarding the National Guard rise superior concerns arsenic to whether helium intends to bid troops to interruption the Posse Comitatus Act elsewhere successful California," the justice wrote.