U.S. President Donald Trump can continue to use national guard troops to respond to protests in Los Angeles as a legal challenge over his use of the military 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 California National Guard troops to respond to the protests. In effect, it doesn¡¯t change the situation on the ground in Los Angeles, where the federal government has been deploying the military for more than a week.
Thursday¡¯s decision isn¡¯t the final ruling on the matter and is likely to be immediately challenged. California could appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, or a bigger panel in the same appeals court. The lower court that had ordered the federal government to return control of the troops to the state will also hold a hearing on Friday.
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