President Donald Trump was following federal law in ordering National Guard troops into Los Angeles without the consent of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and an appeals court made the right decision to postpone a block on his actions, former federal prosecutor Doug Burns said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“There are specific statutes in Title X, of all places, that authorize a president to employ the National Guard over the objection [or] without the consent of a governor,” Burns told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.”

“So I think when they flesh it out in court, the government is going to be arguing those Title X sections very calmly and clearly,” he added. The test is when there is civil unrest or a rebellion, and “there’s a lot of evidence to support the notion that it was civil unrest,” said Burns.

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