Courts unlikely to buy what Dems want to sell
The fallout from Friday’s appeals court ruling vindicating President Donald Trump continues, with one CNN legal analyst predicting that California Governor Gavin Newsom may soon render federal judges powerless should he choose to keep up the fight.
Elie Honig, a top legal contributor for the network, concurred with the ruling by an appeals court, which found that Trump had the authority to overrule Newsom and deploy soldiers to the streets of Los Angeles four days into a series of violent protests that rocked the nation’s second-largest city.
Newsom now must choose whether to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Honig explained why that would be unwise.
“If I was in California’s legal position here, I would tell the governor, you don’t wanna appeal this. You don’t wanna bring this up to the Supreme Court,” he said on Friday. “I think you’re going to lose.”
A three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that, while presidents do not carry unlimited authority to deploy soldiers domestically, in this case, the Trump administration successfully proved that violence in L.A. — combined with feckless leadership by Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass — necessitated federal action.
If Newsom takes his case to the high court, he might lose more than just the justices in the conservative wing, Honig predicted.
“I think if you look at this opinion, it was a three-to-zero unanimous opinion from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. You had two Trump appointees and a Biden appointee on that court. I don’t see any way any of the six conservatives on the Supreme Court say ‘sure, a trial-level district judge can overrule the president on this issue just because he disagrees.'”
“I even think some of the liberals might join with the conservatives on this, as we saw with the Biden appointee,” he added.
Not only would a national defeat batter Newsom’s ability to run for president in 2028, it could also potentially quell federal judges’ injunctions against Trump’s policies nationwide, Honig suggested.
“If they do bring it up to the Supreme Court, California, and if the Supreme Court again rules in favor of the Trump administration, then that’s going to be nationwide, an even bigger loss for California,” concluded Honig.
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California is already one of the most poorly run states in the country. It is already losing population to red states like Texas. While it is not clear who the GOP nominee will be in 2028, it should be clear that Democrats are out of touch wth a majority of voters.
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