A federal judge prevented Donald Trump for Tuesday to deploy the National Guard in California to combat crime.
The US District Judge Charles Breyer, based in San Francisco, issued the Order for the US District Court of the Northern District of California, according to a judicial document.
He suspended the ruling until September 12. The Trump APE administration is likely.
Trump ordered the shipment of 4,000 members of the National Guard and 700 US infants in active duty to Los Angeles in June in response to protests against large -scale immigration raids in the second largest city in the United States.
The deployment inflamed tensions in the city and caused the sentence of the Democrats, who said Trump was using the army to quell the opposition to its hard -line immigration policies.
The case raised new legal questions about the presidential authority.
Newsom’s demand, a prominent democrat, claimed that the troops violated the American long -standing norms and a law known as the POSSE Comitatus Law, which drastically limits the use of federal troops for the application of national law.
In his opinion, Breyer said the evidence in the trial showed that the Trump administration used military troops and vehicles to establish protection perimeters and block traffic and participate in the crowd control.
“In summary, the defendants violated the POSSE Comitatus law,” Breyer wrote.
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American judge blocks the use of troops by the Trump administration in Los Angeles
The Trump administration replied that the United States Constitution allows presidents to use troops to protect federal personnel and property as an exception to the POSSE Comitatus Law.
In June, Breyer discovered that the deployment of the California National Guard by Trump was probably illegal and ordered the troops to return to Newsom control. That was reversed by the Court of Appeals of the Ninth US Circuit a week later.
The three -day trial that ended on August 13 addressed the actions of the military after they were deployed to help federal officers and immigration agents.
The lawyers of the Office of the Attorney General of California tried to demonstrate that the troops had performed police functions, including the establishment of security perimeters and the arrest of two people, and that they were not necessary in the first place. They warned that a ruling in favor of the Trump administration “would mark the beginning of a vast and unprecedented change in the role of the military in our society.”
Administration’s lawyers tried to demonstrate that troops only acted to protect federal agents from perceived threats and remained within their legal limits.
Breyer seemed worried that there were few limits to the discretion of military leaders to decide when protection was needed.
The administration still had several hundred soldiers in Los Angeles when the trial took place, although the protests had calmed down a long time ago. The troops were being used for safety during raids in marijuana farms outside the city and as a demonstration of strength to deter protests in a popular park during an immigration agents operation, according to the evidence shown in the trial.
Trump sent the National Guard to Patrol Washington, DC, a city that, he was plagued with crimes. It is unlikely that Breyer’s decision affects the situation there because the president has more margin of maneuver to use the National Guard in Washington than in the states.
With Reuters information.
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