The federal appellate bench appears poised to uphold the erstwhile President Trump's continued command of the California National Guard—a deployment initiated in the wake of Los Angeles immigration raid protests—thereby potentially overturning a district court's mandate to restore gubernatorial control to Governor Newsom, whose dissent stemmed from a contention of executive overreach; the resolution of this case carries profound ramifications regarding presidential prerogative in deploying federalized troops within US urban centers, representing, notably, the first instance since 1965 of a presidential activation of a state National Guard absent gubernatorial assent, with the appellate judges, a panel comprised of two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee, intimating a broad interpretation of presidential latitude under the pertinent federal statute, while simultaneously rejecting Justice Department counsel arguments positing the judiciary's inability to adjudicate the legality of Trump's initial deployment order—a definitive ruling from the panel is anticipated imminently.