SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by deploying California National Guard troops to Los Angeles during a summer standoff with Gov. Gavin Newsom over immigration raids.

U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the Trump administration’s actions in June breached the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 statute that generally bars use of the military to enforce domestic laws.

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