twitchy.com By Aaron Walker
Regular readers know that we have had riots in Los Angeles designed to disrupt the enforcement of immigration laws for around two weeks now. Trump federalized the National Guard and brought in the marines to protect federal property and personnel but notably not to stop the riots themselves. In the midst of all that, Gavin Newsom tried to get a temporary restraining order stopping Trump from doing that, and hoping that Judge Breyer would give him that order without the Trump administration even having a chance to defend themselves in court. We covered Judge Breyer refusing to do that, here, and setting a hearing the following Thursday. If you wanted a deep dive into the legal issues surrounding the case and a discussion of the Government’s Opposition to the motion for a temporary restraining order, go here. Then this author posted about the hearing, and our opinion that Breyer was likely to rule against the Government, here. Within minutes of that post, our prediction turned out to be true, but also a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit stepped in very and issued an administrative stay of that decision, which we talked about here.
As we noted in that last post, this three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit (made up of two Trump appointees and one Biden appointee) also set a hearing for basically the following Tuesday (last Tuesday as of this writing). You see, an administrative is just a placeholder to keep the status quo in place until the court has a chance to rule. But the question was whether or not a permanent stay was in order, which would allow Trump to continue to command the National Guard. In any case, the court has ruled on that question and it is a near-total win for Trump…
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