BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Gives Trump Back Control of the California National Guard … for Now

Well, that was quick. Trump once again is able to be Commander-in-Chief. Let’s do a quick review.

On Tuesday, Gavin Newsom filed a motion for a Temporary Restraining Order challenging Trump’s use of the military, including the National Guard, in California and was initially denied, with Judge Breyer setting a hearing for Thursday, meaning the day that is close to ending as we write this. The judge also set a very tight briefing schedule. If you want a lot of substantive legal discussion, you will find it in the post discussing the DOJ’s filing opposing Newsom’s motion for a temporary restraining order, and the post discussing how the hearing went. That last post predicted that Judge Breyer was going to claim that Trump had no right to federalize the National Guard and within a few minutes we were proven right when the judge issued exactly that order.

And now that order has been stayed: