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Trump’s Toy Soldiers Get Sent Packing

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Nick Anderson
Sep 02, 2025
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Pop the champagne—or at least a decent California sparkling wine—because Judge Charles Breyer just reminded America that even presidents who cosplay as kings are bound by law. His ruling that the Trump administration “willfully” broke federal law in sending National Guard troops stomping through Los Angeles this summer is a victory not just for California, but for the idea that the United States isn’t supposed to look like a banana republic with Humvees.

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