Just hours after a federal court ruled in its favor, California is seeking a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration from keeping National Guard troops in Los Angeles through November’s election.
The news came amid a ruling Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer. He found that President Donald Trump’s deployment of 4,000 California National Guard troops and 700 Marines to protect federal personnel and property (including Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations) in Los Angeles in June violated the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. The law generally prohibits use of the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement.
Later that day, Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, both Democrats, filed a motion seeking to stop the administration’s 90-day extension, announced Aug. 5, that would keep 300 National Guard troops in Los Angeles through Nov. 5, the day after California’s statewide special election.
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