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BREAKING: Judge rules Trump’s Guard deployment in Los Angeles is illegal [1]
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Date: 2025-06-12
Politico
A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to relinquish control of California’s National Guard troops, ruling that the president’s deployment to Los Angeles amid immigration protests was illegal and unconstitutional.
The civil unrest accompanying those protests fall “far short of ‘rebellion,” U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled, concluding that Trump’s attempt to equate the “sporadic” violence over the weekend to an organized uprising were specious. On Saturday, Trump cited a federal statute allowing him to use the National Guard to suppress the “danger of a rebellion” or to “execute” federal laws when “regular forces” are unable to do so.
“While Defendants have pointed to several instances of violence, they have not identified a violent, armed, organized, open and avowed uprising against the government as a whole,” Breyer concluded in a 36-page opinion . “The definition of rebellion is unmet.”
The ruling is an extraordinary rebuke of Trump’s unprecedented use of the military to support federal immigration authorities as they carry out deportation raids amid volatile protests in Los Angeles. That order resulted in a decision by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to deploy 4,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles this week. Those troops have since helped protect federal buildings and immigration officials as they carried out deportation efforts.
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