The roughly 300 National Guard troops still in Los Angeles will remain there despite a judge’s ruling that President Donald Trump violated federal law by deploying them in the first place, a U.S. attorney said Tuesday.  

Although Federal District Court Judge Charles Breyer, a Clinton appointee, ruled against Trump, he did not order the withdrawal of the troops.

Bill Essayli, acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California,  said Breyer’s decision was “misleading”; the troops are already doing what the judge said they should be doing — guarding federal buildings and employees.

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