A federal appellate court appears set to maintain the *status quo* wherein former President Donald Trump retains command authority over the California National Guard contingent—a deployment triggered by the *contretemps* in Los Angeles emanating from immigration enforcement actions—notwithstanding a lower court's *fiat* mandating the restoration of said authority to Governor Gavin Newsom, whose *dissent* regarding the deployment hinged on an asserted overreach of presidential prerogative; the denouement of this legal *imbroglio* portends potentially far-reaching ramifications concerning the circumscription of presidential powers pertaining to the deployment of military personnel within U.S. municipal jurisdictions, particularly insofar as this instance represents the first invocation of federal control over a state National Guard absent gubernatorial assent since 1965, even as the appellate bench, constituted of two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee, intimated a broad interpretation of presidential latitude under the pertinent federal statute, yet conspicuously refrained from endorsing the Justice Department's counsel's argument premised on judicial non-justiciability; a formal ruling from the panel is anticipated *brevi manu*.