A United States Court of Appeals is poised to affirm the erstwhile President Donald Trump's assumption of command over the California National Guard, a deployment precipitated by the maelstrom of protestations engendered by immigration enforcement operations within the ambit of Los Angeles.

Prior to this, a district court had adjudicated that Trump must relinquish control of the National Guard to Gavin Newsom, the dissenting Democratic Governor of California, who posited that said deployment constituted an overreach of presidential prerogative.

The ramifications of this case could profoundly reshape the President's prerogative to deploy military personnel within U.S. urban centers, especially given that it marks the first instance since 1965 of a presidential activation of the state National Guard absent gubernatorial consent, a circumvention with potentially far-reaching constitutional implications.

The tripartite judicial panel, composed of two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee, stipulated that extant federal statutes afford the President considerable latitude in discretionary matters; however, they demurred from embracing the Justice Department's contention that the court possessed no jurisdictional purview to scrutinize the Trump administration's decree, portending an imminent adjudication by the panel.