A civil trial in San Francisco is being held to determine whether troops deployed by the Trump administration have been illegally engaged in civilian law enforcement.

Some legal experts are concerned that Trump officials are disregarding a court order by continuing to use indiscriminate tactics for immigration enforcement.

Minutes after Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth trumpeted plans to “flood” Washington with National Guard troops, a senior U.S. military official took the stand in federal court in California to defend the controversial deployment of soldiers to Los Angeles.

The move during protests earlier this summer has since become the model for President Trump’s increasing use of soldiers to police American streets.

But the trial, which opened Monday in San Francisco, turns on the ar

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