Overview
- Video reviewed by the Los Angeles Times showed vehicles carrying federalized California National Guard troops leaving downtown Los Angeles early Sunday, ahead of a Monday deadline to halt the deployment.
- The appeals court kept in place a district court order barring use of the Guard in Los Angeles but paused the requirement to immediately return the troops to the governor’s control.
- Roughly 300 California Guardsmen remain under federal control, though court orders currently bar their deployment in California and Oregon, with the long-term status unresolved.
- The Chicago deployment remains blocked while the Supreme Court considers an emergency request focused on the meaning of “regular forces” under 10 U.S.C. §12406.
- In Washington, a D.C. Circuit pause on a district court ruling allows the D.C. National Guard deployment to continue while the appeal proceeds.