Dozens of California National Guard troops under President Trump's command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of an appellate court's order to be gone by noon Monday. Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped. But video taken outside the Roybal Federal Building downtown just after midnight on Sunday and reviewed by The Times shows a large tactical truck and four white passenger vans leaving the facility
The 9th Circuit ruling paves the way for the federal government to occupy the city. The ruling, handed down more than a week after the court heard oral arguments from attorneys for the Department of Justice and the state of Oregon, is a legal success for the Trump administration, after courts have blocked or slowed its efforts to occupy other major cities like Los Angeles and Chicago.
