A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles, and has directed Trump to 'return control of the California National Guard to Governor Newsom.'

Judge Charles Breyer a Clinton appointee, issued his ruling late Thursday, after Newsom requested to immediately restrict the troops' power on the ground, and suggested that at minimum, federal law required Trump to alert the governor's office. 

Breyer repeatedly emphasized during a hearing earlier that Trump is exercising presidential authority - not that of a King (playing right into the current protests, of course).