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If there is one question everyone in America is trying to game out at this moment, it’s this one: Can the judiciary impose meaningful checks on President Donald Trump’s ability to deploy the National Guard in American cities to retaliate against political protests? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9 th Circuit grappled with that question over the past week, although it failed to reach anything approaching consensus. On one side, Judge Ryan Nelson (a Trump appointee) argued that courts have no authority at all to halt the president’s domestic mobilization of the Guard. Several of his colleagues believe that courts must give immense deference to the executive

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