As President Donald Trump threatens to deploy federal troops to Chicago in a continuation of his attempted power grab within prominent Democratic cities, a federal judge has ruled that his deployment of military personnel to Los Angeles in June violated the Posse Comitatus Act.

On Tuesday, Northern District of California Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the Trump administration “violated the Posse Comitatus Act,” which prohibits the use of the military as a mechanism of civilian law enforcement, when it deployed hundreds of members of the National Guard , and later U.S. Marines , to Los Angeles in response to protests against raids and arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ).

“ Congress spoke clearly in 1878 when it passed the Posse Comitatus Act, proh

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