A federal appeals court on Monday handed President Donald Trump a significant legal victory, ruling that he may proceed with his plan to deploy National Guard troops to Portland to assist federal law enforcement in responding to violent anti-ICE protests and unrest in the city.
In a 2–1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit lifted a lower court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) that had blocked the deployment. The panel—composed of Judges Ryan Nelson and Bridget Bade, both Trump appointees, and one Clinton-era judge—found that the president had acted within his lawful authority under federal law.