Trump can’t deploy National Guard in California for law enforcemt
National Guard, Police and Protesters, on June 08, 2025, during a series of migration in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, the police stand outside a two -day clashes with the police after a prison in the city center in Los Angeles.
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On Tuesday, a Federal judge prevented President Donald Trump from distributing the national guard and other military units in California to carry out law enforcement actions, including arrest, search places and crowded control.
. decision came in connection with a case Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, made by the province of California in early June, deployed guards to cope with protests in Los Angeles Trump administration’s immigration implementation policies.
Judge Charles Breyer He said that Trump’s deployment of thousands of National Guard Union and 700 Maritime Posts to La violated the Federal Posse Comitatus law, which prevents US military forces from applying the law at home.
Breyer’s decision at the US Regional Court in San Francisco is limited to California, and the judge decided until September 12th to give time to appeal to the Trump administration.
However, Trump sounds like he thinks to deploy national guard troops to other US cities to deal with crime, including Oakland and San Francisco.
Breyer warned that he would create a national police force with the president “.
Gov. Gavin Newsom scored goals about a social media post.
“Donald Trump lost again,” He wrote on x.
“The courts agree – the militarization of our streets and the use of the army against US citizens is illegal.”
Police and national guards take measures on 9 June 2025 as thousands of icy protesters gathering outside the federal building in California, Los Angeles in the midst of protests on migration raids.
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“The Congress clearly spoke when the Congress crossed the Posse Comitatus Law in 1878, and forbade the use of the US army to carry out domestic law,” Breker said in his decision.
“After about 140 years, the defendants – President Trump, the Secretary of Defense Secretary Hegseth and the Ministry of Defense – the National Guard and Marine Corps to apparently suppress a rebellion and to ensure the implementation of the Federal immigration law.”
“There were really protests in Los Angeles, and some individuals engaged in violence.”
He continued: “Nevertheless there was no rebellion and the civil law enforcement officers could not respond to protests and could not implement the law.”
Breyer shows that the evidence put forward during a hearing for the case is that the defendants are systematically used to establish protective circles and traffic blockages and to participate in crowded control, and show a military asset in and around Los Angeles “.
The CNBC asked the Ministry of Justice, representing the Trump administration in the case, a comment on the decision.
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