US judge hears if Trump team broke law during LA Ice protests
by Coral Murphy Marcos and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#6Z88T)
Federal judge began hearing evidence and arguments on deployment of national guard and marines to curb protests
A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday began hearing evidence and arguments on whether the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed national guard soldiers and US marines to Los Angeles after protests over immigration raids this summer.
The Trump administration federalized California national guard members and sent them to the second-largest US city over the objections of the California governor, Gavin Newsom, and city leaders, after protests erupted on 7 June when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers arrested people at multiple locations.
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