A federal judge said that the president's deployment of military troops to Los Angeles was illegal even as the administration plans to send more troops to other cities.

President Donald Trump said that the military action was necessary to quell anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement violence and crime, but his critics say that the real goal is the militarization of the streets to intimidate dissenters and critics.

Breyer said Trump was trying to create 'a national police force with the president as its chief.'

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled against the Trump administration to prohibit the Pentagon from using National Guard troops and U.S. Marines for police actions. He said in the 52-page ruling that the president had violated the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878,

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