The Ninth Circuit Court’s Ruling Vindicates President Trump
California Becomes a Bellwether for Sanctuary States
By Katie Zacharia, June 22, 2025 2:45 am
The winds of change are blowing out of California – and for once, it’s not the Santa Ana winds, but a legal shift with national impact. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals—historically known for being one of the most notoriously liberal appellate courts in the country—issued a decisive ruling on June 19th, 2025, that vindicates President Donald J. Trump’s federalization of the National Guard. In response to growing unrest in Los Angeles tied to immigration enforcement, President Trump, well within his constitutional authority, called 4,000 National Guard troops into federal service under 10 U.S.C. § 12406. California Governor Gavin Newsom sued, claiming the order violates the Tenth Amendment and oversteps executive authority.
A lower court initially sided with Newsom, blocking the deployment and demanding that control of the California National Guard be returned to Newsom. However, the Ninth Circuit granted a stay, effectively overturning that decision. The court found that the President lawfully invoked § 12406(3), which allows federalization of the National Guard when regular forces are insufficient to execute federal law. The court also rejected California’s claim that deploying the National Guard would escalate tensions, calling those fears “too speculative.” Citing a 2024 Supreme Court decision, Murthy v. Missouri, the Ninth Circuit made it clear that imagined consequences do not justify defiance of federal authority. All stay factors favored President Trump, so the Ninth Circuit granted the stay pending appeal.
This isn’t the first time a president has had to federalize the National Guard. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized Alabama’s National Guard to protect civil rights marchers, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during the Selma-to-Montgomery march. Johnson acted only after Alabama Governor George Wallace refused to protect peaceful demonstrators. Then, and now, federal intervention becomes necessary when state leaders abandon their constitutional responsibilities to protect law-abiding citizens.
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