Trump Administration Fights Order Blocking California National Guard Deployments
A Trump administration lawyer told a federal appeals court Tuesday that judges have no power to review the president's decision to federalize the California National Guard over Gov. Gavin Newsom's objection, and asked it to throw out an order requiring Trump to return command of those troops to the governor.
The district court's order 'upends the military chain of command. It gives state governors veto power over the president's military orders,' Justice Department lawyer Brett Shumate told the three-judge panel during the hearing. Conditions in Los Angeles, where protests against Trump's aggressive deportation policy have at times turned violent, amount to 'rebellion against the authority of the United States,' he said.
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