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President Trump invoked 10 U.S.C. 12406 to call at least 2,000 California National Guard members into federal service for 60 days, over Governor Newsom's objection, to protect ICE agents and federal buildings during the Los Angeles protests.

US District Judge Charles Breyer granted California a temporary restraining order finding the federalization of the state's National Guard illegal and ordering control returned to Governor Newsom, a ruling the Ninth Circuit paused within hours.

Ruling from the bench in Boston, Judge William Young found NIH's termination of about 800 research grants on diversity and LGBTQ health "arbitrary and capricious" and ordered payments to resume, calling the record racial discrimination.

A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel stayed Judge Breyer's order, holding the President was likely to have lawfully federalized California's National Guard under a "highly deferential" review, so the troops stayed under federal command in Los Angeles.

A federal judge in Boston barred the Trump administration from giving any effect to its 22 May 2025 revocation of Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, keeping Harvard able to enroll international students.

After a three-day trial, Judge Charles Breyer found that the Trump administration used federalized Guard troops and Marines for civilian law enforcement in Los Angeles in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, and enjoined it across California.

Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that freezing and terminating nearly $2.2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard violated the First Amendment and Title VI, and barred further retaliatory cuts.

Executive Order 14352 declared a framework deal a qualified divestiture: TikTok's US app goes to a new US-majority joint venture, with Oracle as the security provider holding all US user data.

Days before Dreamforce, Marc Benioff told The New York Times he backed President Trump sending the National Guard to San Francisco: "We don't have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I'm all for it."

President Trump dropped a planned Saturday surge of federal agents into San Francisco after a late-night call in which Mayor Daniel Lurie told him the city was on the rise; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reaffirmed it the next morning.

Judge Charles Breyer granted California a preliminary injunction ending the continued federalization of the California National Guard troops still in and around Los Angeles, more than five months after they were sent.

After the Supreme Court refused to let him deploy the Guard in Chicago, President Trump said on Truth Social that he was removing National Guard troops from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, ending the LA deployment that began in June.

Judge Richard Stearns threw out the Justice Department's Title VI suit seeking to claw back Harvard's federal funding, finding it had not pled any ongoing violation after the government's June 2025 notice.

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is to hear the Trump administration's appeal of the injunction keeping Harvard able to enroll international students, in the Moakley Courthouse's en banc courtroom.