In the high-stakes legal showdown between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump over Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, a U.S. government lawyer argued Tuesday that judges have no power to stop a president from deploying such troops.

A federal appeals court panel Tuesday sharply questioned Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s (D-CA) lawsuit aimed at barring President Donald Trump from federalizing the California National Guard and deploying it to Los Angeles.

A three-judge panel will hear argument Tuesday over whether the Trump administration should return command of National Guard troops to California after thousands of them were activated in Los Angeles.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday spent more than an hour grappling with whether President Donald Trump unlawfully federalized thousands of members of California’s National Guard to beef up security in Los Angeles amid unrest over immigration enforcement there.

Department of Justice lawyers representing the Trump administration returned to court today to repeat their maximalist argument that the president has the authority to commandeer state National Guards troops and that judges have no authority to second guess him.

A federal appeals court will hear arguments regarding California's challenge to Trump's mobilization of the troops.

About 500 of the National Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations, the commander in charge said Wednesday.

Protesters and the National Guard are gathering in downtown Los Angeles this morning ahead of a planned anti-Trump demonstration outside City Hall. The city has closed many freeway exits to downtown,