The federal appellate court is poised to uphold former President Donald Trump's authority over the California National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles in response to protests stemming from immigration enforcement, a reversal of the district court’s ruling that mandated the return of control to Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who contested the deployment as an overreach of presidential power; the outcome of this case carries profound implications for the scope of presidential authority to deploy troops within US cities, marking the first instance since 1965 of a president activating a state's National Guard without gubernatorial consent, a panel of judges, comprising two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee, intimated that extant federal law afforded the president considerable latitude, yet demurred from endorsing the Justice Department’s contention that the court lacked jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of Trump's decision, with a forthcoming verdict anticipated imminently.