A federal judge in San Francisco seemed unconvinced after a three-day trial that the continued deployment of federalized members of California’s National Guard — who were originally deployed to Los Angeles in response to protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda — is lawful.

A general has testified that National Guard troops repeatedly rehearsed their role in an operation at a Los Angeles park intended as a show of force against people protesting immigration raids.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that President Donald Trump was making jokes with him over the phone before the president launched a military response to anti-ICE protests in California. Against Newsom’s wishes, Trump federalized the National Guard in California in response to the protests in Los Angeles. U.S. Marine troops were also sent in.

Three-day trial will determine if the government violated a 19th century law that bars the military from civil law enforcement

A federal judge in San Francisco is weighing whether the Trump administration violated federal law by sending National Guard troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids in Southern California.

In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic cameras and helping to secure crime scene perimeters, tasks not usually part of the job.