The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/13/federal-court-hearing-concludes-regarding-trumps-deployment-of-national-guard-troops-in-la/A federal court case with major implications for Donald Trump's agenda — namely his stated intent to send federal troops into US cities run by Democrats that he perceives to be crime-ridden — had its three-day hearing this week. US District Judge Charles Breyer has already expressed his skepticism over the Trump administration's argument that a deployment of some 2,000 National Guard troops was necessary in Los Angeles in June, in order to quell immigration protests there — protests which never became very large or chaotic, even before the troops were deployed, though a few wayward Waymos were set on fire. Judge Breyer issued a 36-p

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