A federal appeals court on Oct. 30 temporarily reinstated a previous order that recognizes President Donald Trump’s authority to federalize state National Guard troops to deal with violence directed against federal immigration facilities in Portland, Oregon.
A president may take over, or federalize, National Guard troops on an emergency basis in certain circumstances.
A lower court order temporarily blocking the deployment remains in effect.
The new order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit comes as that court prepares to consider whether Trump may federalize Oregon National Guard troops and use them in Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, which he says are besieged by radicals….