A federal judge ruled Tuesday that US President Donald Trump violated federal law by deploying military forces to conduct crowd control and arrests in Los Angeles, marking a significant legal rebuke of the administration’s domestic use of armed forces.

In June, the president deployed military personnel to Los Angeles in a bid to quell protests over his administration’s crackdown on immigration. The same month, Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California sued Trump, alleging he and the US Department of Defense had unlawfully federalized thousands of California National Guard members without following proper statutory procedures requiring gubernatorial consent, in violation of federal law.

In his decision Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California

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