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Trump Brags About “Big Win” Over Newsom With Court Ordered Continued Control Of California National Guard, For Now – Update
In this high stakes game of legal ping pong, Trump retains control of the National Guard over Gavin Newsom a trio of appeals court judges ruled Thursday
“Under a highly deferential standard of review, Defendants have presented facts to allow us to conclude that the President had a colorable basis for invoking § 12406(3),” wrote Judges Mark Bennett, Eric Miller and Jennifer Sung late Thursday, after hearing arguments from both sides on June 17. As the unrest on the streets of downtown LA seem to have quelled this week even as ICE raids continued at Home Depots and elsewhere in the City of Angles force on this Juneteenth holiday, the judges today referenced the Federalist Papers and insisted “we are not writing on a blank slate,” with their decision to reject Newsom’s fleetingly successful temporary restraining order request and siding with Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. After the massive No Kings demonstrations of June 14, federal buildings downtown — where many of the undocumented immigrants abducted by ICE and DHS are being held in basements and bleak conditions — are still surrounded by some of the heavily armed 4,000 Guard troops Trump put on the streets.
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