A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s deployment of federal troops to Los Angeles , finding that the president exceeded his authority and violated the law in doing so. As President Donald Trump seeks to expand his strategy of sending troops into predominantly Democratic, Black-led cities, the ruling represents judicial opposition to the president’s agenda. A federal judge ruled that Trump broke the law by using the military as a police force in California U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled Tuesday that federal troops deployed to Los Angeles by the Trump administration have routinely and systematically violated the law. Specifically, the Clinton appointee determined that these troops had been tasked to engage in routine law enforcement functions and thus violated the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the U.S. military from acting as a domestic police force without express authorization from Congress. Breyer ruled that under Trump and Defense...