Legal Battle Erupts Over Trump’s Unlawful National Guard Seizure in California

The ongoing legal confrontation over President Donald Trump’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops in Los Angeles has escalated into a crucial test of the constitutional limits on executive power. California’s challenge returned to a federal courtroom Friday after a Ninth Circuit appellate panel handed Trump a procedural win allowing him to maintain control over the troops, deployed amid protests against immigration raids.At the heart of the dispute is an egregious overreach by the federal government. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer initially ruled that Trump acted illegally when he assumed command of California’s National Guard units without Governor Gavin Newsom’s...