A federal judge in the United States has ruled that President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the military to tamp down on protests in California was illegal.

On Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer, who serves on the US District Court in Northern California, issued an injunction to block the deployment, though the ruling will not take effect until September 12 and no troops will be immediately withdrawn.

Still, Breyer wrote that Trump’s deployment to southern California was “unprecedented”. He also questioned Trump’s rationale that the protests constituted a “rebellion” that needed to be quashed.

“There were indeed protests in Los Angeles, and some individuals engaged in violence,” Breyer wrote.

“Yet there was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protest

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