Overview

• U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that Trump exceeded his statutory authority and violated the Tenth Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard without the governor’s consent.
• The ruling mandates that command of the California National Guard revert to Governor Gavin Newsom by Friday noon local time.
• Trump dispatched 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles following protests against immigration raids in the city’s immigrant communities.
• In filings, Newsom argued the deployment breached the Posse Comitatus Act and undermined state police powers, an argument affirmed by Breyer’s opinion.
• The White House has appealed the decision, setting up a potential Supreme Court review of presidential power over domestic troop deployments.