June 13 (UPI) -- The California National Guard will remain on the streets of downtown Los Angeles Friday after an appeals court put an order from a federal judge to remove the soldiers on hold only hours after it was decreed.
"The court has received the government's emergency motion for stay pending appeal," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote last Thursday after after the Trump administration requested a delay.
"The request for an administrative stay is granted," the circuit judges continued in a single-page, six-sentence order that stops a temporary restraining order that had President Donald Trump relinquishing control of the state's National Guard away from California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
"The appeals court ruled last night that I can use the National Guard to keep our cities, in this case Los Angeles, safe," Trump posted to his Truth Social account Friday, "If I didn't send the military into Los Angeles, that city would be burning to the ground right now. We saved L.A. Thank you for the decision!!!"
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