Judge rules Trump illegally deployed National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles

By Alicia Victoria Lozano, Ryan J. Reilly and Megan Lebowitz A federal judge in California ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated a 19th-century law barring the use of soldiers for civilian law enforcement activities when it mobilized 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles in June. “The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed […]