The legal battle over the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard in California continued in a federal appeals court on Tuesday, where a panel of judges indicated they might have only limited power to to rule against the president's power to deploy troops.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday spent more than an hour grappling with whether President Donald Trump unlawfully federalized thousands of members of California’s National Guard to beef up security in Los Angeles amid unrest over immigration enforcement there.

In the high-stakes legal showdown between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump over Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, a U.S. government lawyer argued Tuesday that judges have no power to stop a president from deploying such troops.

A federal appeals court will hear arguments regarding California's challenge to Trump's mobilization of the troops.

George Washington University of Law professor Laura Dickinson said the Trump v. Newsom argument over who has authority over the National Guard is an extremely unusual case.

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