- Trump sent Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles
- California challenges legality of use of Guard troops
Aug 11 (Reuters) - A landmark trial kicks off on Monday over the use by Donald Trump’s administration of National Guard forces to support its deportation efforts and quell protests in Los Angeles, in a legal challenge to the U.S. president’s break from long-standing norms against deploying troops on American streets.
The three-day non-jury trial before San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer will determine if the government violated a 19th century law that bars the military from civil law enforcement when Trump deployed the troops in June, as the state of California claims in its legal challenge.
No, I don’t think it does. Following our legal process has done fuck all so far to stop these authoritarian fuckwits. There’s really only one thing other than violence that will solve this, and thats a full on national work stoppage, for however long it takes. A couple of weeks without being able to go to the grocery store, or Target, or whoever else would make people absolute lose their mind. Happened during covid already, and that was actually for a good reason.