Trial begins on deployment of National Guard to Los Angeles

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Monday, August 11, 2025 9:02PM

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Los Angeles field office director for the Department of Homeland Security testified on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers desperately needed the help of military personnel in carrying out arrests. The question is whether President Donald Trump 's deployment of armed forces goes against U.S. law that generally prohibits the president from using the military to police domestic affairs.

Ernesto Santacruz Jr. testified at the start of a three-day trial in San Francisco over whether Trump's administration violated the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act when it deployed National Guard soldiers and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles following June protests over immigration raids. The administration has argued federal military are allowed to protect federal property and federal agents ...

https://abc7.com/post/trial-begins-deployment-national-guard-los-angeles-violated-federal-law/17501227/

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1. Newsom and Trump go back to court over the National Guard

by Mikhail Zinshteyn
August 11, 2025

Did the U.S. military illegally engage in civilian law enforcement when they were deployed to Los Angeles in June under the orders of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta say yes. Trump’s Department of Justice says no. The three-day trial to answer this question is scheduled to commence today at 10 a.m. in a California federal district court, with implications for the country as Trump continues to signal a desire to deploy troops to patrol domestic city streets ...

California’s lawyers assert evidence in their briefs, often redacted because of a court order, that the military took part in law enforcement in violation of 19th Century law called the Posse Comitatus Act. They want a judge to order the Trump administration to permanently halt those actions. The Trump Department of Justice counters that those engagements don’t count as law enforcement, but rather fall under the category of supporting immigration law enforcement agents or protecting federal buildings ...

https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/08/newsom-vs-trump-national-guard/

[FirstLight]

2. so, what happens when the Judge Rules with the State of California...?

Just another ruling for the Administration to defy...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Is there any audio of this?

Edit:

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/live/NIjxIsrQTk0?si=pX93ubRN44-jaecK