On Thursday, a U.S. appeals court allowed Donald Trump to continue command of California’s National Guard while the Democratic governor of the state continues to sue the Republican president for using the troops to put down protests in Los Angeles.
Trump’s move to deploy troops into Los Angeles heightened political tension in the nation’s second-most populated city and sparked a national discussion about the use of the military on American soil.
US District Judge Charles Breyer’s June 12 decision that Trump had illegally ordered the National Guard into federal service was put on hold Thursday by a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
The panel concluded that Trump’s administration most likely operated within its jurisdiction.
