Appeals court temporarily allows Trump to keep National Guard in LA.
An appeals court has temporarily blocked a federal judge's order that directed the Trump administration to return control of California's National Guard troops back to the state.
At an earlier federal court hearing, Judge Charles Breyer said the question presented by California's request was whether Trump followed the law set by Congress on the deployment of a state's National Guard.
He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.".
But the judge stayed the order until Friday afternoon to give the Trump administration time to appeal against it.
Despite Newsom's objections, Trump ordered a total of 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to help quell the unrest.
The Trump administration used a law that allows the president to call the National Guard into federal service when a "rebellion" is happening. »