A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from using the military to fight crime in California, as the Republican president threatened to send troops to more U.S. cities including Chicago.

San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that the Trump administration willfully violated a law known as the Posse Comitatus Act, which sharply limits the use of the military for domestic enforcement, by employing troops to control crowds and bolster federal agents during immigration and drug raids. The administration deployed 4,000 National Guard members and 700 active-duty U.S. Marines to Los Angeles in June.

Tuesday’s ruling dealt a setback to Trump’s push to broaden the role of the military on U.S. soil, which critics say is a dangerous expansion

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