T he president of the United States of America seized control of the California National Guard on June 9, deploying 4,000 guards and an additional 700 Marines to support ICE raids in Los Angeles. Emboldened by this naked power grab, the president pulled the same trick in the District of Columbia on Aug. 11. Ignoring the opposition of the mayor's office and dismissing statistics that point to falling levels of violent crime in our nation's capital, Trump sent in the troops to push a false narrative of American cities as "no-go" danger zones.

Despite the recent ruling by a U.S. District Court judge in San Francisco that Trump's actions in California violated the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act that bars the military enforcement of domestic laws, the commander-in-chief shows no sign of stopping u

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