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California hopes law from bloody era of U.S. history can rein in Trump’s use of troops
Los Angeles Times ^ | Sonja Sharp | Sonja Sharp

Posted on 06/28/2025 10:52:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

California’s fight to rein in President Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles hinges on a 19th century law with a a blood-soaked origin and a name that seems pulled from a Spaghetti Western.

In a pivotal ruling this week, Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer ordered the federal government to hand over evidence to state authorities seeking to prove that the actions of troops in Southern California violate the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which forbids soldiers from enforcing civilian laws.

“How President Trump has used and is using the federalized National Guard and the Marines since deploying them at the beginning of June is plainly relevant to the Posse Comitatus Act,” Breyer wrote Wednesday in his order authorizing “limited expedited discovery.”

The Trump administration objected to the move and has already once gotten a sweeping Breyer ruling that would’ve limited White House authority over the troops overturned by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

This time, the Northern District of California judge made clear he would “only allow discovery as to the Posse Comitatus Act” — signaling what could be the state’s last stand battle to prevent Marines and National Guard forces from participating in immigration enforcement.

The Posse Comitatus Act dates back to the aftermath of the Civil War when the American government faced violent resistance to its efforts to rebuild Southern state governments and enforce federal law following the abolition of slavery.

The text of the law itself is slight, its relevant section barely more than 60 words. Yet when it was enacted, it served as the legal epitaph to Reconstruction — and a preface to Jim Crow.

“It has these very ignoble beginnings,” said Mark P. Nevitt, a law professor at Emory University and one of the country’s foremost experts on the statute.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; california; fakenews; illegals; iwbg; laslimes; lawfare; losangeles; losangelesslimes; sonjasharp; tds
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1 posted on 06/28/2025 10:52:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

7 businesses burglarized during street takeovers in 2 L.A. County communities
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/7-businesses-burglarized-during-street-takeovers-in-2-l-a-county-communities/


2 posted on 06/28/2025 10:54:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Invade California!


3 posted on 06/28/2025 10:59:02 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Somebody needs to give this Breyer shyster a good swift boot in the ass. The boy is obnoxious.


4 posted on 06/28/2025 10:59:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When local government leaders will not maintain law and order, and the same is the case for the county, and the state, then the President has authority to help the citizens restore order.

The citizens have the right to muster and defend their property and themselves and others, when government leaders fail or will not.


5 posted on 06/28/2025 11:03:59 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do they recognize the irony of this article?


6 posted on 06/28/2025 11:07:14 AM PDT by nwrep
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I was thinking the same thing.


7 posted on 06/28/2025 11:09:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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The Posse Comitatus Act is an old law from 19th century. It’s obsolete in these modern times. Isn’t this the argument the left has been using to prevent President Trump from using old laws.


8 posted on 06/28/2025 11:11:02 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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Here we go: In 1957 During desegregation there were protests and the Central High School students who were black was trying to enter the High School.

Back then there were protests and picket lines.

In September of 1957 Thurgood Marshall asked for President Eisenhower's help and the President obliged.

He Sent the Army's 101 airborne to Arkansas and he federalized the Arkansas Nation Guard to keep the peace and protect students as they entered the high school.

My mother took my hand and walked me through the picket lines. This was in 68 or 69 in Louisiana. Louisiana was behind in desegregating schools.

I say all of this to say....Those on the picket lines were Democrats. The same Democrats who created the KKK.

Those same Democrats today are protesting against the black and white people of this country in favor of who they plan to be their slaves they lost.
9 posted on 06/28/2025 11:11:56 AM PDT by ssfromla
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Some “law professors” are simply stupid.


10 posted on 06/28/2025 11:13:27 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave e them.-S.Adams)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Please provide California with a republican form of government. It’s way past time that we followed the Constitution on this.


11 posted on 06/28/2025 11:14:46 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: linMcHlp

Thats right. Its called the militia.


12 posted on 06/28/2025 11:15:30 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: ssfromla

Yes, those same Democrats.


13 posted on 06/28/2025 11:17:45 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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Posse Comitatus Act of 1878

The Confederate victory that marked the end of the War of Northern Aggression.

14 posted on 06/28/2025 11:20:17 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: FlingWingFlyer

He is also shameless and defiant and knows he is essentially untouchable.


15 posted on 06/28/2025 11:22:12 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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IIRC—_BIDEN SUSPENDED POSSE COMITATUS ACT....

IS IT ACTIVE OR NOT????


16 posted on 06/28/2025 11:22:12 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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Slightly off topic, but author Sonja Sharp shows just what a freaking idiot and ignoramus she is when she writes "...a 19th century law with a a blood-soaked origin and a name that seems pulled from a Spaghetti Western." Grok explains:
"Posse Comitatus" is Latin and means "power of the county" or "force of the community." The term comes from the Latin words posse (to be able, power) and comitatus (company, group, or county). It was historically used in English common law to refer to a group of citizens summoned by a sheriff to maintain law and order. In the U.S., it’s most commonly associated with the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which limits the use of federal military forces in domestic law enforcement.
If she had any shame, she's quit trying to write for a living. Clearly she is a product of American public "education," she never studied Latin and she is not curious in the least about words, their etymology, or the law. But she is no doubt a Democrat and we all know what they think about laws.
17 posted on 06/28/2025 11:23:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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California’s fight to rein in President Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles

Hmmm, haven't heard much from the LA rioters in awhile now.

18 posted on 06/28/2025 11:23:47 AM PDT by pfflier
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California hopes law from bloody era of U.S. history can rein in Trump’s use of troops

"California" is an enemy of the American People, America, Civilization and God.

19 posted on 06/28/2025 11:23:56 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Sequoyah101

A freeloading slob who never got a real job.


20 posted on 06/28/2025 11:25:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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