In June, 4,100 California National Guardsmen were put under federal control and deployed to Los Angeles. Two months later, and after most have withdrawn from the city and been released back to the state’s command, a court will now decide if that was even legal.

The trial over the use of the California National Guard started Monday in a district court in San Francisco. California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking the return of state authority over the federalized troops from the California National Guard, arguing that President Donald Trump violated the 19th-century Posse Comitatus Act that bars the military from conducting law enforcement in the United States.

Judge Charles Breyer, who is presiding over the trial, had previously ordered Trump to return control of the National Guard t

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