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Government,
Constitutional Law

Aug. 13, 2025

State says Trump turned National Guard, Marines into 'force multiplier' in LA

An attorney representing California told a San Francisco federal judge Tuesday that President Donald Trump's use of federalized National Guard troops and U.S. Marines during Los Angeles protests violated a post-Reconstruction law barring the military from domestic law enforcement. Lawyers for the federal government say the deployment was lawful and purely protective.

An attorney for California accused President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday of sending a "standing army" to Los Angeles in direct violation of an 1878 federal law that bars the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.

"The Constitution and federal law do not permit anyone, not even the president, to use the military in civilian law enforcement," Deputy California Attorney General Meghan H. Strong said on the second day o...

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