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(DIR) Post #AxnYewRny6MCbF1pKK by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:25:51Z
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Judge rules #Trump troop deployment in #LA #illegal The federal judge found that the deployment exceeded legal limits that generally prohibit the use of the #military for domestic law enforcement.The Trump admin illegally used thousands of military #troops in #California, a federal judge said on Tues, in a ruling that accused Trump of effectively turning nearly 5k #Marines & #NationalGuard soldiers into a national police force.#law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/judge-ruling-trump-national-guard-los-angeles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AxnYyZiYBfs7tbDstE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:29:28Z
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The ruling, by Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Federal District Court in SF, came >2 months into a contentious deployment that was set off by #immigration #protests in June & has since dwindled to ~300 #NationalGuard #soldiers. The judge ordered that remaining #troops should either be released or limited to guarding federal buildings.The judge found #Trump’s deployment had exceeded the limits of federal laws that generally prohibit the use of the #military for domestic law enforcement.#law
(DIR) Post #AxnZ7zuo9cgBkjRv4i by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T14:31:02Z
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@Nonilex Yessssssss!!!!!!
(DIR) Post #AxnZ9VHN1szDJdikee by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T14:31:25Z
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@Nonilex yesssssss!!!!!!!
(DIR) Post #AxnZHNtWMxSqjHK6s4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:32:37Z
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…the #DOJ, which defended the #Trump admin in the lawsuit, is expected to #appeal the decision & could receive more favorable consideration from the US Court of Appeals for the #9thCircuit.#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #NationalGuard #Marines #USTroops #immigration #protests #resist
(DIR) Post #AxnZMvIta8Z9nIpiXg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:33:48Z
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Judge Breyer’s ruling was the latest in a series of judicial battles over claims of expansive unilateral powers by the admin. #Trump & admin officials have deported people without #DueProcess, imposed widespread & unpopular #tariffs & rolled back #energy #regulations, citing *wartime* & *emergency* powers that have [rightly] been disputed in federal court.#law #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #NationalGuard #Marines #immigration #resist
(DIR) Post #AxnZeugsbHGT6Zd7E8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:36:57Z
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#Trump also declared #crime in #WashingtonDC *emergency* in order to send federal #troops there in August, although crime rates in the nation’s capital have actually been falling & local officials said the deployment was not needed. Since then, Trump has publicly mused about sending the #NationalGuard into other #Democratic-led #cities.#law #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #resist
(DIR) Post #AxnZxeK1gNQLqBsGvo by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:39:49Z
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The decision Tues arose from Trump’s deployment this summer of about 4k members of the #California #NationalGuard & 700 #Marines to #LosAngeles, where demonstrations had erupted over #immigration raids.In an EO that was issued June 7 over the objections of Gov Newsom, who normally controls the state’s Guard troops, #Trump wrote that “violent protests” had grown into “a form of rebellion,” & that the #military was needed to “temporarily protect” federal agents & property.#law #MilitaryState
(DIR) Post #Axna9qTOKa7L0A4QUK by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:42:37Z
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…A 19th-century #law, the #PosseComitatusAct, generally prohibits the use of the US #military for domestic civilian law enforcement, absent an #insurrection. But #Trump did not invoke the #InsurrectionAct. Rather, he argued that an overarching federal law, #Title10 of the US Code, which lays out the role of the #ArmedForces, allowed him to commandeer #NationalGuard units to execute federal law.#MilitaryState #democracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy #resist
(DIR) Post #AxnaTq7zK9mbiraqHY by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:46:18Z
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The #Trump admin contended that the #troops were needed in #California for federal agents to do their jobs because protesters were impeding their efforts. CA officials quickly challenged the deployment, & Judge Breyer…temporarily blocked it in June.A 3-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the #9thCircuit, which included 2 appointees of Trump & 1 of President Biden, ruled that Breyer had erred.#law #MilitaryState #democracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy #resist
(DIR) Post #AxnahzStPCbQjf7Q7k by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:48:53Z
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The protests had been violent enough, the #9thCircuit found, that #Trump could at least make an argument for deployment, & legal precedent [#SCOTUS] required them to give “a great level of deference” to the president in weighing the facts underlying his EO.The decision allowed the #troops to remain under Trump’s control, pending a decision on a secondary request by the #state to restrict how the troops could be used.#law #MilitaryState #democracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy #resist
(DIR) Post #Axnav0YSfHYvscvlLM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:51:11Z
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Attys for #California demanded the #military be limited, at most, to guarding #federal buildings, & the appeals court determined the admin’s use of the troops remained subject to judicial review.By mid-June, the #protests in #LosAngeles had largely ended, but instead of releasing the #troops, the #Trump admin kept them on duty in a sprawling tent city near #LongBeach. The admin sent #soldiers & #Marines out with federal agents executing search & arrest warrants & conducting #immigration raids.
(DIR) Post #Axnb4vsau05aHA51bk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:53:01Z
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#Newsom challenged the admin’s claim that the #troops were not conducting law enforcement. During a 3-day hearing in August before Judge Breyer’s order, lawyers for #California showed numerous photographs of armed #NationalGuard troops engaged in what appeared to be #police work — forming security perimeters around cannabis farms & workplaces where #immigration raids were being conducted, or wielding batons behind police tape as #ICE agents handcuffed people.#Trump #law #MilitaryState
(DIR) Post #AxnbFQHCk3zfRiarD6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:54:54Z
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In at least 2 instances, the state’s lawyers noted, members of the deployment briefly detained people. One occasion was early in the deployment in Carpinteria, when #Nationa Guard troops prevented a protester from entering an area where a raid was in progress. The other episode occurred later, when #Marines held a man for about a half-hour after he tried to enter a #LosAngeles federal building.#Trump #law #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #resist
(DIR) Post #AxnbQ8ggTguc51ca6y by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T14:56:50Z
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A field agent for #ICE in #LosAngeles testified that, for at least the first month of the deployment, about 75% of ICE operations involved federalized #troops.Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, a 33-year #Army veteran who led the task force overseeing the LA deployment, testified that troops took great care not to cross the line into law enforcement. But the line was fraught.#Trump #law #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #resist
(DIR) Post #AxnblraCkj5pOzwvWS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T15:00:47Z
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The general testified at length, for example, about a mission, code-named Operation Excalibur, in which federal #immigration agents on foot & on horseback marched through #MacArthurPark, a #LosAngeles landmark in a neighborhood now largely home to #LowIncome #immigrant #families.🚨Sherman said #Trump wanted to conduct the mission on Father’s Day & to stage #troops & #military equipment in the middle of the park in a “show of presence,” but he objected.#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
(DIR) Post #Axnc1sVx3ciKvMb3Fw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T15:03:40Z
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The placement of #troops, Sherman said, seemed to inappropriately involve the #military in what appeared to be a risky & low-value operation.Only after #federal officials planned to reposition the troops outside the park did he recommend approval. 🚨 But when he expressed his concerns, he said, Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol chief who is overseeing the federal #immigration *crackdown* in Southern #California, questioned his loyalty to the country.#Trump #law #MilitaryState #tyranny #resist
(DIR) Post #AxncFdW7c6giSuEjRo by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T15:06:09Z
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The mission, which Sherman said was ultimately approved by #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth, was postponed twice before taking place on July 7. Mayor Karen Bass of #LosAngeles condemned it as a callous act of #PoliticalTheater that terrified children in the park as well as social workers who were providing services to homeless people.Scores of #NationalGuard #troops drove to the area & stayed for about 20 mins in case trouble erupted, the general testified, but never left their trucks.#Trump #law
(DIR) Post #AxncU1heUHvDWyUXGC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-02T15:08:45Z
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…Judge Breyer questioned how anyone could limit the power of the White House if the president could legally dispatch the #military to enforce any conceivable #federal function.Normally, he noted, local law enforcement officers protect public employees going about their duty. Shouldn’t the president have to prove that a threat exists & rises to a specific threshold in order to summon the military?“Where are the limits?” Breyer repeatedly asked.#Trump #law #MilitaryState #tyranny #resist
(DIR) Post #AxndBc8KuqkQyBkzz6 by mmalc@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T15:16:37Z
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@Nonilex This is why I don't understand the apparent complacency behind statements along the lines of, “The law is the only thing reining Trump in”.Continuing the equine theme, the words “stable”, “door”, and “bolted" come to mind.Trump is clearly intent on riding roughshod over the law. Post hoc legal wrist-slapping is of little solace to those brutalised by the original action
(DIR) Post #AxndCK7pM6U7PLrDIe by bici@mastodon.social
2025-09-02T15:16:46Z
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@Nonilex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD-zTwi3_GU MacArthur's Park is melting in the darkAll the sweet green icing flowing downSomeone left the cake out in the rainI don't think that I can take it'Cause it took so long to bake itAnd I'll never have that recipe again, oh no
(DIR) Post #Axnoot5MvAcaKrIZPc by paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange
2025-09-02T17:26:57Z
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@Nonilex at this point, the only legitimate "emergency" in our country is the actions of the WH and their cronies.