Police and nationwide guards take measures as 1000’s of anti-ICE protesters are gathered exterior of the Federal Building in Los Angeles, California on June 9, 2025 amid protests over immigration raids.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday appealed a federal choose’s ruling, which discovered that his deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles to have interaction in legislation enforcement actions was unlawful.
The attraction got here a day after Judge Charles Breyer stated that Trump’s deployment of 1000’s of Guard troops and a whole lot of Marines in June violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which typically bars U.S. navy forces from participating in home legislation enforcement actions.
Breyer’s ruling barred the 300 remaining Guard troops in Los Angeles from making arrests, looking places, and conducting crowd management whereas they’re stationed in Los Angeles.
His ruling, which got here in response to a lawsuit by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, additionally prohibits comparable legislation enforcement duties by Guard troops or navy forces anyplace else within the state.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media within the Oval Office on the White House on September 2, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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The choose had paused the enforcement of his choice in San Francisco federal court to present the Trump administration time to file an attraction of the ruling with the ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
The attraction comes as Trump is contemplating whether or not to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago and different cities, after having not too long ago performed so in Washington, D.C., to take care of what he claimed was rampant crime there.
Breyer’s ruling famous Trump’s prior threats to deploy the Guard and troops in different cities, writing that doing so would create “a national police force with the President as its chief.”
“President Trump’s recent executive orders and public statements regarding the National Guard raise serious concerns as to whether he intends to order troops to violate the Posse Comitatus Act elsewhere in California,” the choose wrote.