{"id":194982,"date":"2025-09-02T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194982\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:21:09","slug":"federal-judge-rules-trumps-military-deployment-in-los-angeles-violates-1878-law-jurist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194982\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge rules Trump’s military deployment in Los Angeles violates 1878 Law – JURIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge ruled<\/a> Tuesday that US President Donald Trump violated federal law by deploying military forces to conduct crowd control and arrests in Los Angeles, marking a significant legal rebuke of the administration\u2019s domestic use of armed forces.<\/p>\n

In June, the president deployed military personnel to Los Angeles in a bid to quell protests over his administration\u2019s crackdown<\/a> on immigration. The same month, Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California sued<\/a> Trump, alleging he and the US Department of Defense had unlawfully federalized thousands of California National Guard members without following proper statutory procedures requiring gubernatorial consent, in violation of federal law.<\/p>\n

In his decision Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer<\/a> of the Northern District of California<\/a> sided with California, finding that Trump\u2019s deployment of federalized National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles since June 7 violated the Posse Comitatus Act<\/a> of 1878, which restricts military forces from enforcing domestic law except where explicitly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.<\/p>\n

Since the LA deployment, Trump has initiated a federal takeover of the Washington, DC police force, and has mused<\/a> about doing the same in other major cities, including Chicago<\/a> and Baltimore. If Breyer\u2019s opinion is upheld as it inevitably goes up for appeal, it would drastically inhibit Trump\u2019s agenda to provide federal \u201claw and order\u201d on US streets.<\/p>\n

Newsom lauded the ruling, saying in a statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Today, the court sided with democracy and the Constitution. No president is a king \u2014 not even Trump \u2014 and no president can trample a state\u2019s power to protect its people. As the court today ruled, Trump is breaking the law by \u2018creating a national police force with the President as its chief.\u2019 That\u2019s exactly what we\u2019ve been warning about for months. There is no rampant lawlessness in California, and in fact, crime rates are higher in Republican-led states. Trump\u2019s attempt to use federal troops as his personal police force is illegal, authoritarian, and must be stopped in every courtroom across this country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Breyer\u2019s ruling enjoined the Trump administration from \u201cdeploying, 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, unless and until Defendants satisfy the requirements of a valid constitutional or statutory exception, as defined herein, to the Posse Comitatus Act,\u201d but stayed the injunction until September 12, giving the administration time to appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge ruled Tuesday that US President Donald Trump violated federal law by deploying military forces to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-194982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115136566664512718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}