Trump Allowed to Keep Using National Guard in LA for Now

President Donald Trump can continue to use California National Guard troops to respond to protests in Los Angeles as a legal challenge over the deployment proceeds, a federal appeals court ruled.

In a win for the White House, a three-judge panel in San Francisco on Thursday said the Trump administration can keep using the California National Guard to respond to protests over the president’s immigration raids. The court extended a delay on a lower-court order that would have required Trump to return control of the troops to Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, saying courts should be “highly deferential” to Trump’s decision to federalize the troops.