Members of a federal appeals court on Tuesday questioned what role courts should have in reviewing President Donald Trump’s authority to deploy the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles.
The three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is considering the Trump administration’s bid to extend a pause it issued last week.
On June 12, the appeals court granted a request by the administration to temporarily stay a lower court order by District Judge Charles Breyer directing it to return control of the California National Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The appeals court did not provide details regarding its legal rationale when handing down that ruling….