“He is not a monarch. He is not a king, and he should stop acting like one,” Newsom told reporters outside the federal courthouse after an emergency hearing in downtown San Francisco.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge's order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them in response to protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.

When President Trump unleashed the troops on the streets of Los Angeles, his actions had an unintended consequence. Gov. Gavin Newsom was suddenly in the spotlight, a forceful adversary.