One day after a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles during immigration enforcement and protests was illegal, the administration filed a notice of appeal.

Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco issued the ruling Tuesday, finding that the deployment was in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars most uses of U.S. troops on U.S. soil. The judge placed the ruling on hold until noon on Sept. 12 to give the Trump administration time to appeal.

The notice to appeal was filed Wednesday with the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals.

Breyer’s ruling was based on an 1878 law that prevents federal troops from being used for regular law enforcement activities. The Trump administration has argued that the troops

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