The appellate judiciary appears set to maintain the ex-President Donald Trump's command over California National Guard personnel, initially mobilised amidst Los Angeles-based demonstrations precipitated by immigration enforcement actions, thereby potentially reversing a district court mandate that would have ceded authority to Governor Gavin Newsom, whose objections to the deployment centred on assertions of presidential overreach, marking a watershed moment as the first instance since 1965 of a presidential activation of a state's National Guard absent gubernatorial concurrence; the judicial panel, composed of two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee, intimated that extant federal statutes afford presidents considerable discretion, yet concurrently expressed reservations regarding the Justice Department's contention that judicial review of presidential decisions in this arena is precluded, with a definitive ruling from the bench anticipated imminently, the ramifications of which could indelibly reshape the contours of presidential power concerning domestic military deployments.