ABC7 News reporter Monica Madden was in the courtroom as a federal judge heard arguments on whether the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed National Guard soldiers to LA following June immigration raid protests.

"Why is the federalized National Guard, even though it's been drawn down, still in place?" a federal judge asked.

A federal judge in San Francisco seemed unconvinced after a three-day trial that the continued deployment of federalized members of California’s National Guard — who were originally deployed to Los Angeles in response to protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda — is lawful.