A US federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in California in a setback to the president’s plans to put troops on the streets of cities across the country.
San Francisco district judge Charles Breyer on Tuesday wrote that the government had violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the US military from enforcing domestic law, when it placed the California National Guard under federal control in June to quash protests against the administration’s immigration crackdown.
The White House claimed the demonstrations qualified as a rebellion that blocked the enforcement of federal immigration law.