A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in California based on “an ongoing risk” that the president will act unlawfully.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco wrote Sept. 2 that Congress was clear in the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act that lawmakers prohibited using the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement.
But he ruled there was no rebellion when Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles in June, ostensibly to quell a rebellion and ensure that immigration law was enforced. Breyer cited plans by Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to expand the guard deployment to Oakland and San Francisco, and in other states across the country.
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The Trump administration has fired the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, in the latest in a series of moves to purge the U.S. intelligence community and install Trump loyalists in top positions, lawmakers said Aug. 22.
Several Republican-led states are deploying more National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to address what President Trump has called a "crime emergency" in the nation's capital. Several lawmakers and military officials, including former top official of the National Guard Major Gen. Randy E. Manner, have expressed concern that the guard is being politicized.
An active-duty soldier opened fire at Fort Stewart military base in south-east Georgia on Wednesday, wounding five other soldiers before being taken into custody.
Most of defense department’s discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 went to military contractors.





























