Trump’s Los Angeles Troop Deployment Violated Federal Law: Judge

President Donald Trump violated federal law by deploying National Guard troops and US Marines to carry out local law enforcement in Los Angeles over the summer as protests raged against his immigration crackdown, a judge ruled.

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The decision Tuesday in San Francisco blocks the Trump administration from using federal troops for law enforcement activities anywhere in California. The ruling comes as Trump continues to say he will use the military in other major American cities where he claims crime is out of control. While the ruling is limited to California, it demonstrates how courts may respond if Trump follows through on suggestions that he'll deploy troops to other cities. The president has already activated the National Guard in Washington to crack down on what he called “out of control" crime and has threatened to do the same in Chicago and Baltimore, among other Democratic-led cities. "I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC," Trump said Tuesday in a post on Truth Social. "Chicago will be safe again." Tuesday's ruling, which following a three-day trial last month, rejected Trump's argument that the protests, which were sometimes violent, created an exception to a more-than century old federal statute called the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids members of the military from enforcing civilian laws except during limited circumstances such as an insurrection.