Reuters The Trump administration’s assignment of military lawyers to help the Department of Justice prosecute civilians for offenses unrelated to the military cannot be prevented by a court as it does not violate federal law, a Minnesota judge ruled on Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Shannon Elkins in Minneapolis reached that conclusion in a closely watched case in which a defendant challenged the lawfulness of being prosecuted by a lawyer from the armed services. Paul Johnson, a Minnesota resident, was charged with assaulting a Customs and Border Protection agent in January as President Donald Trump’s administration pursued an aggressive immigration enforcement surge in his state. During the surge, the Defense Department assigned lawyers belonging to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps to assist the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, after it had sent JAGs to help prosecute crime in Washington, D.C., and Tennessee.…