Sept. 4, 2025 5 AM PT
To the editor: It’s good to see judges taking a daring and principled stand for the rule of legislation, however when has Donald J. Trump ever confronted actual penalties for breaking any legal guidelines (“Trump deployment of military troops to Los Angeles was illegal, judge rules in blistering opinion,” Sept. 2)? It appears to me nobody in our nation’s historical past has carried out a greater job of manipulating our judicial system, which allows practically infinite continuances, particular hearings, exemptions and appeals for the defendant with deep pockets and/or political affect, all within the identify of due course of. You’d assume that if anybody ever deserved to be launched by a “rocket docket,” it might be somebody who was credibly accused of making an attempt a coup.
Carl Matthies, Pasadena
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To the editor: When troops are available in, they function a present of drive in opposition to legal exercise. Their presence stops crime with out essentially needing to arrest anybody.
Property gross sales, as an example, are very talked-about in and round California. A lot of them may have an individual standing on the door checking consumers coming into and leaving — by no means threatening in any means, however a present of safety, and it really works in preserving anybody from stealing more often than not.
Fascinating how troops exhibiting energy to forestall legal exercise is illegitimate and have to be stopped. Choose Charles R. Breyer appears to not perceive {that a} president’s most necessary job is to maintain Americans and the nation protected. Why doesn’t California name for a vote or survey asking the folks of L.A., who pay huge state taxes, in the event that they and their households really feel as protected as they need to?
Elaine Vanoff, West Hollywood
