Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the president can keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids.
The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who claimed Trump acted illegally when he activated the soldiers over opposition from California Governor Gavin Newsom (D).
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), says the three-judge panel rightly concluded that the president lawfully exercised his authority in federalizing control of the Guard.

"That was a very logical decision," she comments. "You talk about dictators and tinpot dictators; look at Gavin Newsom and look at his whole political party imposing agendas on Americans that Americans never supported, never voted for through Congress – things like boys in women's locker rooms and things like the Department of Education. That's dictatorship."
Donnelly says Democrats are once again projecting.
"In a typical Democratic Party way, they always accuse Republicans of what they themselves are doing," she summarizes.
She says 50 governors cannot be deciding whether or not the National Guard should be used to protect the federal employees and buildings that belong to the United States of America, so the court ruled in the right way.
"Gavin Newsom is the one who's overstepping his authority here," Donnelly concludes.