The legal battle over the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard in California continued in a federal appeals court on Tuesday, where a panel of judges indicated they might have only limited power to to rule against the president's power to deploy troops.

In the high-stakes legal showdown between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump over Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, a U.S. government lawyer argued Tuesday that judges have no power to stop a president from deploying such troops.