A ruling on whether to limit the California National Guard and Marines’ role in Los Angeles could come soon, a federal judge said during an hourlong hearing Thursday afternoon in San Francisco. A sense of urgency was expressed by an attorney representing California.

The fight over the president’s takeover of California’s National Guard escalates, as a judge calls his actions ‘illegal.’ President Trump won a temporary victory Thursday night when a federal appeals court blocked a lower court judge’s order to return control of California’s National Guard to the state.