In response to the protest in Los Angeles, President Trump called in the National Guard, but a federal judge in California ruled the Trump administration took control of those troops illegally and that he must return control to the governor.

The California National Guard remain active on the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Friday after an appeals court put an order from a federal judge to remove the soldiers on hold only hours after it was decreed.

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.