Overview

• U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer found the administration unlawfully used federalized California National Guard members and Marines for domestic policing in Los Angeles.
• Trial evidence showed troops set up protective perimeters, traffic blockades, and engaged in crowd control, which the court said crossed into law-enforcement activity.
• The injunction forbids tasks such as arrests, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic or crowd control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting as informants.
• The order currently applies only in California and does not cover separate deployments such as those in Washington, D.C., which involve different legal authorities.
• California sued over the June deployment that began with several thousand troops and has since been scaled back to roughly 300, and the Justice Department has signaled it will appeal.