The federal appeals court, seemingly inclined to uphold the status quo, appears set to maintain former President Trump's command over the California National Guard, initially deployed in the wake of Los Angeles protests triggered by immigration enforcement actions, thereby challenging a lower court's mandate to revert authority to Governor Newsom, whose vehement objections centred on an alleged overreach of presidential prerogative; the denouement of this legal challenge carries profound ramifications for the executive's power to deploy federalised troops within domestic urban centres, marking a potentially unprecedented assertion of presidential authority absent gubernatorial consent since 1965, and while the judicial panel – comprising two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee – intimated broad deference to presidential discretion under the extant federal statute, they concurrently demurred from the Justice Department's contention that judicial review of the former president's deployment decision was categorically precluded, with a definitive ruling from the appellate body anticipated imminently.