President Donald Trump expressed gratitude to an appeals court for its decision allowing him to maintain the deployment of the California National Guard in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Appeals Court ruled last night that I can use the National Guard to keep our cities, in this case Los Angeles, safe,\u201d Trump posted on his\u00a0Truth Social\u00a0<\/a>page. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t send the Military into Los Angeles, that city would be burning to the ground right now. We saved L.A. Thank you for the Decision!!!\u201d<\/p>\n The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Trump administration\u2019s motion to stay a ruling by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, according to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n Earlier Thursday, Breyer claimed Trump had acted unconstitutionally in federalizing elements of the California National Guard to help protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as well as federal property, citing the 10th Amendment.<\/p>\n By dispatching the Guard, Breyer ruled, Trump had acted improperly, \u201cboth exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.\u201d He further ordered the Guard returned to Governor Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n The judge temporarily delayed his order until noon Friday, but the Trump administration promptly filed a notice of appeal. The court swiftly granted the request for a stay and scheduled a hearing for Tuesday.<\/p>\n Breyer issued his ruling after California filed a lawsuit against Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and the Department of Defense. The suit sought to limit the role of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles to the protection of federal facilities and personnel, barring them from other operations.<\/p>\n It also challenged Trump\u2019s authority to deploy those forces in California without the consultation or approval of the state\u2019s governor.<\/p>\n Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used references to fictional provisions of the Constitution in a tirade against Trump after he took control of California Guard troops.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope the president would read Article 10 of the Constitution, and I urge all of you to do that, as well,\u201d Pelosi said Thursday at a press conference as Democratic lawmakers behind her all nodded in agreement. \u201cBecause section 12046 of Article 10 says that the National Guard cannot be called up by the president without the consent of the governor.\u201d<\/p>\n Only, there is no \u201cArticle 10\u201d in the Constitution; there are only seven, and they lay out the duties and responsibilities of each branch of government: Executive, Judicial, Legislative.<\/p>\n Pelosi was likely attempting to reference Title 10 of the United States Code, which contains the provisions for use of the \u201cNational Guard in Federal service.\u201d<\/p>\n Having said that, however, Pelosi was also wrong in claiming that presidents don\u2019t have the authority to federalize National Guard troops. One of the Democratic Party\u2019s icons, civil rights-era President Lyndon B. Johnson, invoked Title 10 to federalize Alabama National Guard troops to protect civil rights protesters, per the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n WATCH:<\/p>\n