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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Rachel Dobkin and Josh Marcus

Appeals court sides with Trump on National Guard deployment in LA

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has sided with President Donald Trump after California Governor Gavin Newsom sued his administration for deploying 4,000 National Guard troops during mass anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles that erupted earlier this month.

“We conclude that it is likely that the president lawfully exercised his statutory authority” by deploying the Guard, the appeals court wrote in a ruling late Thursday.

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