A federal appeals court for now rejected California’s effort to force President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard in the state, ruling Thursday that the president likely acted within his authority in response to at-times violent protests in Los Angeles.
The unsigned order from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit temporarily pauses a lower-court ruling that directed Trump to return control of 4,000 members of the state’s National Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The pause will last while the Trump administration appeals that lower-court ruling, which found that Trump had violated the law and the Constitution with the order.
