Los Angeles (AP) – The Court of Appeal allowed President Donald Trump on Thursday to control the National Guard forces, which he deployed in Los Angeles after protests against immigration raids.
The decision is arrested by a ruling of the minimum court judge, and he found that Trump had acting illegally when he activated the soldiers on the opposition of California Governor Gavin New Rosoum.
The publication was the first by the head of the National Guard of the state without the ruler’s permission since 1965.
In its decision, a committee of three judges in the Court of Appeal in the ninth American district concluded that Trump is likely to exercise his authority to federal control of the guard.
He said that although the presidents do not have an unrestricted power to control the state guard, the Trump administration provided sufficient evidence to show that it had justifications that could be defended to do so, noting violent actions by the demonstrators.
“The facts are undisputed that before the publication of the National Guard, the demonstrators photographed” many federal officers “and threw” concrete pieces “, liquid bottles, and other things” on the officers. The demonstrators also destroyed federal buildings. “The interest of the federal government in preventing incidents such is important.”
It was also found that even if the federal government fails to notify the California governor before the National Guard weakened as required by law, newsoms had no authority to veto the president’s order.
Trump celebrated the decision on his social platform, describing him as a “great victory.”
He wrote that “all over the United States, if our cities, and our people need protection, we are the ones who give them to them in the event of the inability of the local police and police, for any reason, to accomplish the task.”
Newsom issued a statement expressed his disappointment that the court allows Trump to control the guard. But he also welcomed one side of the decision.
“The court rejected the right of Trump’s claim that he could do what he wanted with the National Guard and is not obliged to explain himself to the court,” New Nooring said. “The president is not a king and is not above the law. We will press forward to challenge President Trump’s authoritarian use of American military soldiers against citizens.”
The court’s case could have wider effects on the president’s authority to deploy soldiers inside the United States after Trump directed immigration officials to give priority to deportation from other democratic cities.
Trump, Republican, argued that the forces were necessary to restore the regime. Newsom, a democracy, said this step adheres to tensions, raped the local authority and wasted resources. Since then, the protests seemed to end.
Two judges were appointed to the Appeals Committee by Trump during his first term. During the oral arguments on Tuesday, all the three judges suggested that the presidents have a wide latitudious line under federal law in discussion and that the courts must hesitate to intervene.
The case began when Newsom filed a lawsuit against Trump’s leadership, and won an early victory from the American provincial judge, Charles Prayer, in San Francisco.
Prayer found that Trump has exceeded his legal authority, which he said only presidents could not control during times of “rebellion or the risk of rebellion”.
“The protests in Los Angeles are no less than” rebellion “.
Nevertheless, the Trump administration argued that the courts could not guess the president’s decisions and quickly secure a temporary stop from the Court of Appeal.
The ruling means controlling the National Guard in California in the hands of federalism with the continuation of the lawsuit.