A federal appeals court has indefinitely blocked California Governor Gavin Newsom's effort to wrest back control of National Guard troops that President Donald Trump sent to Los Angeles after unrest over immigration laws, Politico reports.

The three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Trump appeared to have acted within his authority when he took control of 4,000 California National Guard troops.

Despite debate over the extent of violence accompanying the protests, the justices - two appointed by Trump and one by President Joe Biden - concluded that the law gave Trump enormous discretion to determine that the protests and related violence interfered with the enforcement of federal law. The justices said there were limits to the president's ability to call out the Guard, but there was enough evidence of civil unrest and danger to federal employees to justify the Republican's actions. 

The ruling indefinitely overturns a decision by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, who last week issued a temporary restraining order against Trump's Guard deployment. Breyer is scheduled to hold another hearing in the case on June 20 to consider Newsom's request for a longer-term block on both the Guard deployment and Trump's subsequent deployment of 700 Marines.

The three judges on the panel are Trump appointees Mark Bennett and Eric Miller and Biden appointee Jennifer Sung. All three seemed skeptical of Newsom's position during oral arguments. Their June 19 order was issued "per curiam," meaning that no judge was named as an author of the opinion. | BGNES