Elie Honig: Ruling Against Deployment of National Guard Is Only a ‘Temporary Setback’ for Trump

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HONIG: "This was a setback for Donald Trump today, but temporary and limited in scope. Trump lost — excuse me, Trump won the big issue, which is whether he could constitutionally send National Guard troops into California in the first place. Today‘s ruling Judge Breyer uses to reinforce this fundamental wall of separation that exists in this country between the federal military on the one hand, and civilian law enforcement on the other, and what Judge Breyer says today is, okay, fine, he doesn‘t like the opinion. He got reversed. He doesn‘t like the fact that National Guard is there, but he says the way they‘re being used crosses over that wall. They can‘t be helping with search warrants and arrests and traffic stops and that type of thing. So it puts a limit on what these National Guards can do, clearly with an eye towards Donald Trump‘s announced intention to send them into other cities."