President Donald Trump’s deployment of thousands of National Guard troops in Los Angeles has depleted a key wildfire-fighting force as California heads into its most dangerous season for blazes, Governor Gavin Newsom said.

The legal battle over the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard in California continued in a federal appeals court on Tuesday. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals presided over a remote hearing regarding California's challenge to President Donald Trump's federalization of the state's National Guard troops amid protests over immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area.

Donald Trump is going to take California’s troops and his ball to the Supreme Court if he doesn’t get another win over Gavin Newsom. In an appeals court hearing Tuesday before a three-judge panel, a Department of Justice lawyer bluntly said that they intend to go straight to the SCOTUS if their POTUS client once