Despite having lost an important federal lawsuit barring the use of the military for civilian law enforcement purposes, Donald Trump is still lawlessly promising to send troops into the streets of Chicago and other cities. That is counter to the American way and the law and Trump must not do it.
In a 52-page order, California Federal Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the Trump administration had violated the Posse Comitatus Act in deploying military forces to Los Angeles to assist in the immigration and speech crackdown.
Breyer, the younger brother of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, offered reasoning that was detailed but did not have to rely on any particularly convoluted evidence; his summarized plenty of evidence showing both that the armed forces understand the type o