US Court of Appeals Allows Trump to Keep National Guard in LA

Quelle: VIDEOELEPHANT (Glomex)

A US Court of Appeals has allowed President Donald Trump to maintain the deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, temporarily suspending a lower court ruling that had blocked this measure. US District Judge Charles Breyer had ruled that the use of the National Guard was unlawful and that Trump's deployment to suppress anti-ICE protests in the city exceeded his powers. The Trump administration quickly appealed the ruling, arguing that the protests amounted to a "rebellion." "Judge Breyer's decision is an extraordinary intrusion into the President's constitutional authority as Commander in Chief," said the Trump administration in its appeal. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments next week to decide whether Judge Breyer's decision should stand. In the meantime, the National Guard will remain under federal control as protests, mainly focused on a federal prison, continue to escalate. In his ruling, Judge Breyer wrote that the deployment is exacerbating tensions and diverting guards from other important tasks such as border security and combating drug smuggling. Trump continues to defend the measure by claiming that the city would be in flames without federal intervention, even though the protests are mostly peaceful. Before the suspension by the Court of Appeals, California Governor Gavin Newsom, who had filed the emergency motion, described Breyer's decision as a "test of democracy" that the state had "passed."