Members of the three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Tuesday over the Trump administration’s petition for a stay to halt a lower court judge’s order for the president to relinquish control of the California National Guard back to Democratic Gov. “Under their view, they can just do the whole process without consulting the governor at all, and then slap his name at the top of the document,” Harbourt argued of the Trump administration’s position. Judges brought up Martin v. Mott a few times during oral arguments and noted similarities between the language in the statute Trump invoked and the law at the center of the 1827 case.
Author: Ryan King
Published at: 2025-06-17 21:38:51
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