Newsom had requested that the administration return thousands of National Guard troops to his command. A judge temporarily halted the Trump administration’s National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, writing Thursday that the federal government did not have the authority to nationalize California’s National Guard.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's deployment of California's National Guard to Los Angeles and called the move illegal. The judge's order to return control of the troops to California Governor Gavin Newsom will not go into effect immediately and the administration has filed an appeal.