A federal judge today blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from using the military to fight crime in California, as the Republican president threatens to send troops to more U.S. cities, including Chicago. San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that the Trump administration violated a law known as the Posse Comitatus Act with its June deployment of 4,000 National Guard and 700 active duty U.S. Marines to Los Angeles. The law sharply limits the use of federal troops for domestic enforcement.

The decision dealt a setback to Trump’s push to expand the role of the military on U.S. soil, which critics say is a dangerous expansion of executive authority that could spark tensions between troops and ordinary citizens.

Breyer put the ruling on hold until September

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