President Donald Trump is celebrating his victory in California after the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday allowed him to keep control of the National Guard troops he deployed earlier this month in response to Los Angeles protests over immigration raids in the city.
“BIG WIN in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the President’s core power to call in the National Guard!” Trump posted on his Truth Social page on Thursday night. “The Judges obviously realized that Gavin Newscum is incompetent and ill prepared, but this is much bigger than Gavin, because all over the United States, if our Cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them should State and Local Police be unable, for whatever reason, to get the job done.”
Earlier Thursday, the three-person panel, which has two appointees from Trump’s first term in office, halted a ruling from a lower court judge who said Trump acted illegally when he activated the Guard, despite the opposition of Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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