A federal judge in San Francisco ordered the Trump administration to “return control” of the deployed California National Guard soldiers to the State. The judge wrote that President Donald Trump did not follow the congressionally mandated procedures for his order to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles.
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, a Clinton appointee, ruled Thursday evening that the Trump administration must relinquish control of the California National Guard. Breyer wrote that the president’s “actions were illegal.” He said they exceeded “the scope of his statutory authority,” and his actions “violated the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
The New York Post reported that Brett Shumate, the head of the DOJ’s Civil Division, argued that the president’s order had delegated
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