Appeals court says Trump can keep control of California National Guard troops

President Donald Trump is within his rights to deploy the California National Guard amid protests against federal law enforcement over immigration raids, an appeals court ruled Thursday night.

President Donald Trump is within his rights to deploy the California National Guard amid protests against federal law enforcement over immigration raids, an appeals court ruled Thursday night.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government made a required "strong showing" in arguing it would prevail against California's challenge to the legality of the deployment of troops usually under the governor's control.

The court stated that it disagreed with the Trump administration's stance that "The President’s decision to federalize members of the California National Guard ... is completely insulated from judicial review."

But it argued the office of the president carries unusual weight in the matter.

"Under longstanding precedent ... our review of that decision must be highly deferential" to the president, the panel wrote in its ruling. "Affording the President that deference, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority."