A circuit court is on the cusp of upholding the former President's prerogative to command California National Guard forces, initially dispatched in the wake of Los Angeles demonstrations sparked by immigration enforcement actions, thereby potentially reversing a lower court mandate that would have restored gubernatorial authority to Gavin Newsom, whose objections to the deployment hinged on assertions of executive overreach, a decision that may have far-reaching ramifications for the scope of presidential power in deploying federalized troops domestically, marking a singular instance since 1965 of a state's National Guard being activated sans gubernatorial consent; notwithstanding the jurisprudential nuances debated by the appellate panel, composed of two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee, whose line of questioning seemed to acknowledge expansive presidential latitude under the relevant statute, the bench appeared disinclined to fully embrace the Justice Department's argument positing judicial non-reviewability of the President's initial determination, with a definitive ruling anticipated imminently.