Trump’s California challenge military deployment In Los Angeles returned to a federal courtroom in San Francisco on Friday for a brief hearing after a court of appeal has given the presidency Donald Trump A key procedural victory.
US District Judge Charles Breyer has resumed additional decisions and rather asked for briefings on both sides at noon on Monday on the question of whether the posse comitatus act, which prohibits troops from leading civilian police on American soil, is violated in Los Angeles.
The hearing occurred the next day 9th circuit call panel As much the president To keep control Troops of the National Guard which he deployed in response to demonstrations against immigration raids.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Said in his complaint that “the violation of the Comitatus law is imminent, if not already underway”, but Breyer postponed last week given this allegation.
Vice-president JD Vance, a veteran marin, went to Los Angeles on Friday and met troops, including US Marines who were deployed to protect federal buildings.
According to Vance, the court determined that Trump’s determination to send federal troops “was legitimate” and he will do it again if necessary.
“The president has a very simple proposal to everyone in each city, to each community, to each city, whether large or small, if you apply your own laws and if you protect the federal police, we are not going to send the National Guard because it is not necessary,” Vance to journalists told a federal complex in Los Angeles.
The visit of vance of a multiple joint joint operations center and a mobile command center came while the demonstrations were calmed after sometimes violent clashes between the demonstrators and the police and the epidemics of vandalism And the burglaries that followed immigration raids across southern California earlier this month. Tens of thousands of people have also worked peacefully in Los Angeles since June 8.
The troops of the National Guard accompanied federal agents on certain immigration descendants, and Marines briefly owned a man On the first day, they deployed to protect a federal building. The marked federal troops have marked a civilian since the deployment in the second largest city in the country.
Trump authorized to keep control of the National Guard
Breyer found that Trump had acted illegally when, for the opposition of the governor of California, the president activated the soldiers. However, the appeal decision interrupted the judge temporary prohibition order. Breyer asked lawyers on Friday to determine whether he or the court of appeal retains the main jurisdiction to grant an injunction under the posse Comitatus Act.
California has requested a preliminary injunction to give newsom control of the troops in Los Angeles, where the demonstrations have been calmed in recent days.
Trump, a Republican, argued that the troops were necessary to restore order. Newsom, a democrat, said that their presence in the streets of an American city ignited tensions, has usurped local authorities and wasted resources.
The mayor of Los Angeles raises the curfew after the demonstrations that calm down
Demonstrations seem to endAlthough dozens of demonstrators presented themselves on Thursday to Dodger stadiumWhere a group of federal agents gathered in a parking lot with the covered face, traveling in SUVs and vans. The organization of Los Angeles Dodgers asked them to leave, and they did.
Tuesday, the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass Raise a downtown a curfew This was first imposed in response to vandalism and clashes with the police after the crowds gathered in opposition to agents taking migrants in detention.
Trump federated members of the California National Guard under an authority known as title 10.
Title 10 allows the president to call the National Guard in federal service when the country “is invaded”, when there is “there is a rebellion or a danger of rebellion against the authority of the government” or when the president is otherwise unable to “execute the laws of the United States”.
Breyer found that Trump had exceeded his legal authoritywhich, according to him, allows presidents to control the troops of the National Guard of State that in period of “rebellion or danger of rebellion”.
“The demonstrations in Los Angeles are not far from” rebellion “,” wrote Breyer, a Watergate prosecutor appointed by President Bill Clinton and is the brother of the Supreme Court retired Stephen Breyer.
The National Guard remains in federal hands while the trial takes place
The Trump administration argued that the courts cannot undergo the decisions of the president. The appeal committee ruled the opposite, saying that the presidents had no without hindrance to take control of a state custody, but that the panel said that by citing violent acts by demonstrators in this case, the Trump administration had presented enough evidence to show that it had a defensible justification to federalize the troops.
For the moment, the California National Guard will remain in federal hands as the trial takes place. This is the first deployment by a president of a state national guard without the authorization of the governor since the troops were sent to protect the walkers of the civil rights movement in 1965.
Trump celebrated the appeal decision in an article on social networks, calling it a “great victory” and referring to more potential deployments.
Newsom, for its part, also warned that California would not be the last state to see troops in the streets if Trump arrives.
