Breyer finds a willful Posse Comitatus violation in Los Angeles

Date

Sep 2, 2025

Kind

Domestic troops

Status

Judicially found non-compliant

Source

cnn.com ↗

Court or forum

Newsom v. Trump, N.D. Cal., Judge Charles Breyer

What happened

Breyer found Trump and Hegseth willfully violated the Posse Comitatus Act using ~4,000 federalized Guard and 700 Marines for law-enforcement functions, knowingly contradicting their own training materials and coaching agencies on what language to use in requests.

Publisher

CNN

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