A federal judge on Tuesday barred President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard and other military troops in California to execute law enforcement actions there, including making arrests, searching locations and crowd control.

The ruling came in connection with a lawsuit filed in early June by the state of California challenging Trump's and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 's deployment of the guard and Marines to deal with protests in Los Angeles over the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies .

Judge Charles Breyer said Trump's deployment of thousands of National Guard troops and 700 Marines to LA. "willfully" violated the federal Posse Comitatus Act , which bars U.S. military forces from enforcing the law domestically.

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