Well….
Not so fast?
A federal appeals court panel has backed President Donald Trump’s authority to send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, concluding that though the president’s claims on social media “may exaggerate” the violence in the city, he may still have had a valid basis for the deployment.
The 2-1 ruling, endorsed by two Trump appointees to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, is the latest win for Trump’s effort to deploy the military into cities across the country over the fierce objections of state and local leaders. Trump has cited violence outside immigration facilities as a basis for the deployments, saying it has impeded his ability to enforce the law, but governors and mayors say there has been minimal unrest and Trump is using largely peaceful protests as a pretext to expand his power.
The Supreme Court appears poised to resolve the matter. The high court is already considering a similar dispute where a federal appeals court kept in place a block on deployment of the National Guard to the Chicago area.
Though the 9th Circuit panel’s decision lifts a lower court’s order that blocked Trump from federalizing Oregon’s National Guard troops, the immediate practical impact of the ruling was unclear. That’s because the same lower-court judge, Karin Immergut, issued a second order after Trump moved to send California National Guard troops to Oregon, temporarily prohibiting any use of federalized troops in the state. The administration has not yet appealed that second order, although it said it expected Immergut to lift it if the appeals panel ruled in Trump’s favor…..
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