Overview

• U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found the federalization and deployment in Los Angeles violated the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.
• The injunction prohibits the administration from deploying, ordering, training or using California Guard units for civilian law enforcement activities.
• The order bars Guard and previously deployed military personnel from arrests, patrols, traffic stops, crowd control, searches, seizures, interrogations and evidence collection.
• The ruling cites evidence of armed soldiers and military vehicles establishing perimeters and traffic blockades as unlawful domestic policing.
• The injunction takes effect on September 12, leaving time for the government to seek appellate relief, as California’s suit by Gov. Gavin Newsom and AG Rob Bonta proceeds and hundreds of Guard members reportedly remain in the region.