Public sentiment is deeply polarized regarding Trump's National Guard deployment in California. Supporters view it as a necessary measure for maintaining public safety amid perceived failures of state leadership, while critics decry it as abuse of federal power and a threat to state rights, expressing strong concerns over judicial integrity and political motivations behind legal challenges. The comments reflect both fraternal backing for federal intervention and significant frustration towards the legal system and state officials.

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Trump will appeal.  It’ll get tied up with the appellate court and if he loses again, up to the supreme.

tamachan777

Now we see if Trump, and more importantly the troops, listen.

MalcolmLinair

&gt; The order, which takes effect Friday

Boy I can't wait for it to definitely take effect Friday, putting a full stop to this nightmare right on the clock. Right? That will definitely happen?

King_of_the_Kobolds

Yeah? And? What happens when he simply ignores the judge's order?

mritty

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Hegseth already refused to confirm if a judiciary ruling would be followed.

BearDen17

Newsom should waste no time taking control and diffusing this situation.

Stinky_Fartface

Here we go on another cycle of judges blocking and unblocking and reblocking and on and on until the next crazy thing Trump fucks up next week

tsagdiyev

The system is wild. 

Court declares an illegal act. 

Defendant requests appeal and/ or stay to continue illegal act. 

Then if confirmed to be illegal, the act stops and the offender is immune from any reprucussion?

Chiinoe

Truth social is about to be a firestorm of insults and racism.

mfdoorway

SpaceshipBenny

It was already appealed and will be ruled on...on Tuesday. 

"Doctor! I'm having a heart attack!" 

"Will Tuesday work?"

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5348353-appeals-court-temporarily-lifts-judges-block-on-trumps-national-guard-deployment/

KratosLegacy

Here is what will happen:

Step 1 - Trump Admin will appeal (they already did, shocker)

Step 2 - Appeals court will affirm the ruling (because duh)

Step 3 - Trump administration will appeal to the Supreme Court

Step 4 - SCOTUS, in the shadow docket in a 6-3 or 5-4 ruling, will side with the Trump Administration and make up some justification out of thin air

Step 5 - We will continue to speed race our way towards civil war

AFlaccoSeagulls

Nice little judicial zinger on p. 23: 

"...the statute does not allow for the federalizing of the 
National Guard when the President faces obstacles that cause him to underperform in 
executing the laws."

Attinctus

popegonzalo

So who allowed this illegal order to proceed… which general decided to follow Trumps illegal order?

I wanna see butts!!!

Biggie39

He’s going to run to his SCOTUS lap dogs.

Special_Transition13

&gt;The Trump administration has appealed the ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

They're going to hold it up in the courts while they still terrorize innocent Americans in LA. Then something is going to happen and Trump will declare martial law. 

Or Trump will just say "fuck the courts" and nothing will happen to him.

HardcoreKaraoke

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/marines-prepare-los-angeles-deployment-protests-spread-across-us-2025-06-12/

LOS ANGELES, June 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to maintain his deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles amid protests over stepped-up immigration enforcement, temporarily pausing a lower court ruling that blocked the mobilization.

jimmyw404

It's more cheques and balances these days

Riftreaper

headline is now inaccurate -- the order was overturned already -- https://bsky.app/profile/winterpolitics1.bsky.social/post/3lrhjjohrq22c

dont_ban_me_please

So a convicted felon did something illegal.

How'd that happen?

QcRoman

it will get stayed in appeals and allow this bullshit to continue until it eventually winds up at the US Supreme Court where they will rule in Trumps favor.

DontYuckMyYum

Let’s get a copy of this ruling to that useless cunt Kristi Noem

Joedirthair

So that’s why trump said they already got L.A. under control

Ok_Caterpillar602

Reminder that the “big beautiful bill” also includes a clause that would allow the President to ignore court orders without punishment.

riings

Gavin should order the national guard to escort the ice, fbi, and marines out of our state.

igotabridgetosell

Trump is the worst president since Trump!

chefwatson

So I think the Trump Admin is going to try and play the "we haven't given activation orders yet, so we can't return oversight" card and this is why they've been delaying it. It's another version of the "we can't bring back people from El Salvador, we don't have any power!" act that they've been doing.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/guard-soldiers-deployed-trumps-la-crackdown-arent-getting-paid-yet.html

ILootEverything

This aged like milk, and it’s only been 6 hours.

_Username_goes_heree

timpham

9th Circuit already stayed this judge's order.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-06-12/federal-court-california-challenge-trump-marines-national-guard-deployment

Trump remains in control of the NG who were federalized.

jaybigs

Ive known people who have gone to jail for illegally deploying leaf blowers that didn't belong to them.

InternationalArt6222

Update the 9th circuit appeals reverse it, Trump still has the guard there.

ImportantVacation630

And face consequence right??? No consequences? Yeah sounds about right.

Jaggerman82

FuklzTheDrnkClwn

"Hours after a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump acted illegally in deploying the National Guard to address protests in the Los Angeles area, an appeals court put the order on pause."

From the article

EtherSnoot

Never more than now am I all about “states’ rights”

runthepoint1

Imagine, the U.S. is on the road to a civil war.

And I'm pretty sure there will also be a livestream. I mean it maybe starts in california.

maxip89

Hard to be a shittier American than a Republican these days

Medical_Arugula3315

Every Californian representative should get a national guard detail when carrying out their legal duties they're sworn to uphold.

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So all that states rights stuff from the right was just nonsense?  Seems like just about everything they claim to stand for. Just posturing. All they want is power and lower taxes for the rich.

AlexandrTheTolerable

Not like POTUS Shtitzel for brains has any idea what the Constitution says.

happyherbbby

I thought MAGA loved states' rights?


Oh it was all bullshit like everything else got it.

juiceboxedhero

jgasbarro

They only care about states rights when it comes to abortion.

moods-

Republicans have traditionally sold themselves as giving more responsibility to the States. Interestingly, The government here has deployed NG without governor’ ok. Not the norm. We all know that likely this is another ploy to incite violence/chaos which our present Washington government reps condone for purposes of “declaring an emergency”….for MORE POWER GRABs. Just sayin…

Subject-Big-7352

Because, uh... it does.  Thats why they are saying that.

WaelreowMadr

[US Posse Comitatus Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act)

GregWilson23

California should never forget the way this administration, the way republicans have treated this state. This is a genuine attack on California for simply being blue and standing up to Trump.

AlarmingBranch1

Everyone gonna spin their wheels for a week then Trump will do something else even more crazy, we will all forget about this like the other 50 things he already did to dismantle the constitution and the cycle will continue. If only we held him to the standard of everyone else he would be in prison…. Years ago

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It is more that it explicitly violates the law Trump is invoking.

The problem is the law doesn’t matter anymore, not the idea of state sovereignty.

eskimospy212

Remember when republicans threw an absolute shit fit over a training operation in Texas?

CranberrySchnapps

States rights, just not the blue ones. Got it.

Emergency-Shirt2208

The marines are on the way so what are you going to do about it ?

CAM6913

What’s he gonna say about the marines ? Haha

PM_ME_YOUR_GOOD_PM

Can a state have rights if they refuse to protect and enact them? I believe this is a smart move for Trump California is a craphole

cryptocapitalist_

Trump is unprecedented. 
  
America doesn't historically and willfully vote in criminals for POTUS.

faith_apnea

&gt; Enyart described the decision to use National Guard troops to quell the protests as unprecedented, saying, "They've thrown the entire playbook out."

&gt; In his conversation with NPR's A Martinez, Enyart raised core concerns over Trump's use of the Guard, including the erosion of local control, the lack of an overwhelming threat and the politicization of military force on U.S. soil.

&gt; Here's a summary of the key answers from the interview. ...

drtolmn69

National guard? How does he feel about marine deployment?

lurkylurkeroo

He asked Secretary of Defense Esper and General Milley during his first term if they could shoot BLM protesters in the legs. They refused. Now, Milley's gone, and Hegseth is in charge...

JFJinCO

ChanceryTheRapper

Aren’t there any generals around with the balls to step out n and stop this bullshit?

yarddog9

Remember the Hispanic and Black vote that Trump gloated about? Its going bye bye.

KoBxElucidator

Folks need to see this.. the task force being deployed looks like it was assembled well in advance https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4210889/usnorthcom-statement-on-additional-military-personnel-in-the-los-angeles-area/

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I understand that the law grinds slowly but the hearing for Tuesday stings. Four days with the military deployed feels like an eternity.

Orzorn

Can't break the law. Can break the law. Can't break the law. Can break the law. 

This shit needs to pick a lane already.

kon---

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/12/newsom-trump-court-ruling-military-la/

Concluding Paragraphs:

Before the appeals court ruling, Jon Michaels, a law professor at the University of California Los Angeles, said he was watching for what comes next. An order may not deter Trump, Michaels said: He might ignore it, or he could invoke the Insurrection Act, as administration officials have suggested in recent days. Another possibility, Michaels added, would be sharply stepped-up immigration raids that trigger more protests, changing the situation on the ground and providing more justification for military involvement.


“They’re not really looking to de-escalate,” he said of the administration. “This has now become, for better or worse, a signature standoff for Newsom, and I don’t think Trump wants to lose to Gavin Newsom.”

D-R-AZ

Absolutely asinine and the courts should be ashamed.

ArcturusRoot

At worst, the appeals court is waiting until Tuesday because they don’t think Trump will listen and hope the protests will be over by then. At best, the protests will continue until Tuesday and the appeals court will limit Trump’s ability to take over California’s national guard

Meb2x

\&gt;Newsom’s earlier remarks in which he said he was “confident in the rule of law.”

Well that makes one of us

ludixst

kindredfan

Just a little fascism for now, as a treat.

Able_Ad_7747

These Republican judges are establishing legal precedent for a president to wield a state’s national guard as his own personal army without invoking the insurrection act.

In the name of “protecting Los Angeles” 

Republicans, you are giving all presidents this power. Not just Trump. All in the name of limiting property damage in your least favorite city in the US.

Y0___0Y

A legal battle has erupted over President Trump's deployment of the National Guard in California to manage protests against immigration raids, highlighting the ongoing conflict between state autonomy and federal authority.

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