US EditionMinnesota’s Congressional Delegation Responds to Trump’s DC Takeover
- A three-day trial started on August 11, 2025, in San Francisco to examine if Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles violated the law.
- The deployment followed protests and immigration raids on June 7, when ICE arrested people in multiple locations, and California challenged the federal takeover as unconstitutional.
- The operation includes about 4,000 federally activated California National Guard members alongside 700 Marines, supporting ICE enforcement actions and safeguarding federal facilities in Los Angeles amid resistance from the state’s officials.
- Judge Charles Breyer, who found the administration violated the 10th Amendment, said the court must determine if the military enforced domestic law and cited the Posse Comitatus Act limiting such use.
- The trial’s outcome could set a precedent limiting presidential authority to deploy military forces for domestic law enforcement in California and other states during future operations.
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San Bernardino Sun
Trial starts over Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard to Los Angeles
By JANIE HAR and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Los Angeles field office director for the Department of Homeland Security testified on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers desperately needed the help of military personnel in carrying out arrests. The question is whether President Donald Trump‘s deployment of armed forces goes against U.S. law that generally prohibits the president from using the military to police…
Legality of Trump’s National Guard deployment to Los Angeles on trial - Washington Examiner
A high-stakes trial began Monday in a California courtroom over whether the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed thousands of National Guard troops and United States Marines to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids in June. The three-day bench trial before U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, the brother of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, will determine whether the Trump administration violated …
Pine Journal
Minnesota’s congressional delegation responds to Trump’s DC takeover
ST. PAUL — President Donald Trump announced Monday, Aug. 11, that he plans to deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and take federal control over the Metropolitan police department. Trump said the move to invoke the D.C. Home Rule Act is in response to crime and homelessness in the city, NPR reports. Under the D.C. Home Rule Act, the president has the power to temporarily take over the police department under “special conditions of an e…
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