Vice President JD Vance will visit Los Angeles today, the White House has announced.
The vice president will tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center and a Federal Mobile Command Center, meet with leadership and Marines and then deliver brief remarks, according to a brief statement from the White House.
Times, sites and any other details were not year released on Friday morning.
Vance arrives in L.A. on the heels of a legal victory for President Donald Trump, as an appeals court issued a ruling on Thursday evening, allowing him to retain control of National Guard troops he sent to the city in response to protests over immigration raids.
Trump earlier this month federalized the California National Guard, deploying more than 4,000 troops to Los Angeles to respond to large-scale demonstrations over immigration enforcement efforts.
Trump posted a celebratory note on social media after the ruling came out.
Calling it a “BIG WIN,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account that “all over the United States, if our Cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them should State and Local Police be unable, for whatever reason, to get the job done.”
California state officials, meanwhile, vowed to continue to fight the Trump administration in court.
The governor’s office released a statement saying that although Gov. Gavin Newsom was disappointed that Trump was allowed to retain control of the California National Guard for now, he welcomed other findings by the panel of judges.
“The court rightly rejected Trump’s claim that he can do whatever he wants with the National Guard and not have to explain himself to a court,” Newsom said in the statement. “The President is not a king and is not above the law. We will press forward with our challenge to President Trump’s authoritarian use of U.S. military soldiers against citizens.”
The ruling means control of the California National Guard will stay in federal hands as the lawsuit continues to unfold.
Litigation is set to return on Friday to the San Francisco courtroom of Judge Breyer for another hearing. He is weighing whether to issue a more durable preliminary injunction restricting what Trump can do with some 4,000 National Guard troops or 700 active-duty Marines his administration has also deployed into the city.
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