On December 10, US District Court Judge Charles Breyer ordered the Trump administration to “end its deployment of federalized California National Guard troops in Los Angeles and return the troops to state control.” He delayed that order until December 15 at noon local time. On December 12, an appeals court upheld the removal of the troops from Los Angeles, but removed the requirement to return the troops to state control. So did the troops leave Los Angeles? While there was plenty of news coverage of Judge Breyer’s ruling, there has been inexplicably almost no coverage of what happened after that.
The Los Angeles Times did cover this, though, with a rather inconclusive answer:
Dozens of California National Guard troops under President Trump’s command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of an appellate court’s order to be gone by noon Monday.
They said that “[a]dministration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped.”
There doesn’t appear to be any other coverage by major outlets of what actually happened.
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