The fight over the president’s takeover of California’s National Guard escalates, as a judge calls his actions ‘illegal.’ President Trump won a temporary victory Thursday night when a federal appeals court blocked a lower court judge’s order to return control of California’s National Guard to the state.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he

A federal judge had earlier directed the Trump administration to return control of California's National Guard troops back to the state.