A United States Court of Appeals on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to maintain his deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles in the midst of protests for the application of intensified immigration, temporarily stopping a ruling of the lower court that blocked the mobilization.
The ninth decision of the United States Circuit Court of Circuit does not mean that the Court will finally agree with Trump, but leaves the guard of the guard with the president for now.
Earlier on Thursday, the American district judge based in San Francisco, Charles Breyer, discovered that Trump’s deployment was illegal. Breyer’s 36 -page ruling had ordered the National Guard to return to the control of the governor of California Gavin Newsom, who had presented the case.
It was a short -term victory for Newsom, since Breyer’s order stopped about two and a half hours later. When a comment was requested, the Newsom press office referred to the Governor’s statement after the initial ruling and pointed out that the Court of Appeals put a temporary pause on the ruling, but did not revert it.
“I have confidence, based on the revision of the 36 pages, absolutely that will remain,” said Newsom about the order of the district judge. Trump welcomed the ruling in a publication on social networks on Friday.
The panel of the Court of Appeals of three judges was made up of two judges appointed by Trump in his first mandate and a judge who was appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden. The panel said he would hold an audience on Tuesday to consider the merits of Breyer’s order.
The Court’s action convened an administrative stay, grants the Additional Time Judges to consider the Trump administration request to block Breyer’s order while the dispute continues in the case.
Trump summoned the National Guard on Saturday in response to the protests that had exploded on immigration raids, then on Monday he ordered the US marines to support the guard.
A battalion of 700 US Marines is expected to arrive on Friday, marking an extraordinary use of military forces to support civil police operations within the United States.
The troops have been saved in a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles, where many of the protests have taken place in a sample of solidarity for immigrants stopped inside. The protests so far have been mostly peaceful, punctuated by incidents of violence and restricted to some blocks of the city.
The guard had also accompanied the agents of application of immigration and customs in operations to detain immigrants.
In his ruling, Breyer wrote that the presence of the troops in the city was inflaming the tensions with the protesters, an affirmation made by the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, among others, and depriving the state of the ability to use the guard for other purposes.
The mayor wants ice outside Los Angeles
Bass asked ICE officers on Thursday to withdraw from the intensified series of raids that led to the protests, saying that the local economy could be harmed since immigrants stayed at home of work and school for fear of being taken from the streets.
“The peace that we must have to happen must begin in Washington, and we must stop the raids,” Bass told a press conference when supporters who flanked it in a song of “stopping the raids.”
“La Paz begins with the ice that comes out of Los Angeles,” said Bass, who has imposed a night curb touch on a square mile (2.5 km square) of the center of Los Angeles.
Bass spoke after National Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem promised to “free” Los Angeles at a press conference that was dramatically interrupted when federal agents dragged the Democratic Senator of the United States Alex Padilla outside the room, forced him to the ground and handcuffed him.
The judicial battle and the transmission of the press conference underlined the political polarization generated by the Trump’s hard line approach for the application of immigration and the expansive use of presidential power.
Trump is carrying out a campaign promise to deport immigrants, using blunt tactics consisting of the political style that breaks the norm that chose it twice. Democrats have said that the use of military force was unnecessary and an example of Trump’s authoritarianism.
Among the decisions, Newsom said the National Guard would be redistributed to its previous tasks, including border security, forest fire preparation and counteract drug smuggling.
But the Trump administration immediately appealed the judge’s order, calling Breyer’s ruling “an extraordinary intrusion about the constitutional authority of the president as commander in chief.”
Trump justified the deployment of troops by characterizing protests in Los Angeles as a “rebellion”, but Breyer said in his temporal restriction order that the protests remained well below that legal standard.
“The court is concerned with the involvement inherent in the argument of the accused that the protest against the federal government, a civil liberty protected by the first amendment, can justify a finding of rebellion,” Breyer wrote.
Trump reiterated on Friday his comments that if he had not ordered the National Guard, the city would be in flames, writing: “We save Los Angeles.”
