An appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump, for now, to keep the California National Guard deployed in response to protests in Los Angeles, blocking a ruling Thursday by a federal judge that ordered the Trump administration to return control of the troops to California Gov.

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.

The Trump administration argued in federal court that any judicial intervention to curtail its deployment of military troops to Los Angeles would endanger federal immigration agents and undermine the president's authority to keep American cities safe.