US District Judge Charles Breyer questions Trump’s rationale that Los Angeles protests constituted a ‘rebellion’.
By Al Jazeera Staff
A federal judge in the United States has ruled that President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the military to tamp down protests in California was illegal.
On Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer, who serves on the US District Court in Northern California, issued an injunction to block the deployment although the ruling will not take effect until September 12 and no soldiers will be immediately withdrawn.
Still, Breyer wrote that Trump’s deployment to Southern California was “unprecedented”. He also questioned Trump’s rationale that the protests constituted a “rebellion” that needed to be quashed.
