Federal appeals court rules in favor of Trump administration on DC National Guard deployment
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s bid to continue the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., signaling that it may find the...
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A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s bid to continue the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. , signaling that it may find the troop’s deployment within the nation’s capital to be lawful. In a unanimous decision issued Wednesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel indefinitely paused a previous order issued by a lower court requiring President Donald Trump to send thousands of Guardsmen home after they were deployed to the nation’s capital. The move comes after the court had previously frozen the same order while it weighed whether to extend the pause for a longer period of time, with Trump now permitted to keep members of the National Guard in D.C. through the end of February. The appeals court determined that the city’s unique status as a federal district created by Congress makes it likely that Trump will be successful in a lawsuit brought by D.C.’s attorney general over the deployment of Guardsmen in the nation’s capital and other states, according to the order. FEDERAL COURT TO REVIEW CASE RELATING TO TRUMP’S AUTHORITY TO SEND NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND, OREGON In September, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued the Trump administration over the troops’ deployment, arguing the move was an illegal infringement on the city’s law enforcement. Schwalb also previously asked a judge to pause the deployment as the case remained pending. Had the court not intervened, Judge Patricia Millett, an appointee of Former President Barack Obama, warned there would be a "profound level of disruption to the lives of thousands of service members who have been deployed for four months already." Millett also pointed to D.C.’s attorney general failing to identify "any ongoing injury to its statutory interests." JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT IN LOS ANGELES "The President’s order implicates a strong and distinctive interest in the protection of federal governmental functions and property wit…