The appellate court is on the cusp of upholding the erstwhile President Trump's commandeering of the California National Guard, activated in the wake of Los Angeles immigration raid protests, a decision that flies in the face of a lower court's injunction mandating a return of authority to Governor Newsom, who vociferously contested the deployment as an overreach of executive prerogative; the denouement of this litigation carries profound ramifications for the scope of presidential deployment powers within domestic urban centers, representing, as it does, the first instance since 1965 of a presidential activation of a state's National Guard absent gubernatorial concurrence, with the judicial panel – composed of two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee – intimating a broad interpretation of presidential latitude under the pertinent federal statute, whilst nonetheless rejecting the Justice Department's contention that judicial review is precluded, and a definitive ruling from the bench is anticipated imminently.