The federal government is asking a federal appeals court to pause a lower court block on sending federalized National Guard troops to protect the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland, Oregon.
“The President was well within his discretion to consider months-long unrest in Portland, as well as the potential for continuing unrest over the foreseeable future,” attorneys for the Department of Justice (DOJ) wrote in a 490-page emergency motion filed the night of Nov. 16 in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The DOJ is asking that the Ninth Circuit put on hold the Nov. 7 decision issued by Judge Karin Immergut of the U.S. District Court of Oregon, who ordered that 200 Oregon National Guard members return to state control by Nov. 14….