US court allows Trump to keep control of California national guard while lawsuit proceeds
by Guardian staff and agency from on (#6Y3SY)
Appeals court extends pause on district judge ruling that president called troops into federal service unlawfully
A US appeals court has let Donald Trump retain control over California's national guard while the state's Democratic governor proceeds with a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Republican president's use of the troops to quell protests and unrest in Los Angeles.
A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court of appeals on Thursday extended a pause it had placed on US district judge Charles Breyer's 12 June ruling that Trump had called the national guard into federal service unlawfully.
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