A federal appellate court has tentatively set a hearing for Thursday morning on the Trump administration’s push to put a pause on an Oregon federal judge’s order barring the president from sending National Guard troops into federal service in Portland.

The hearing is tentatively set to be held remotely at 9 a.m. before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but a three-judge appellate panel may also decide the matter solely on the briefs presented to the court.

Attorneys for the Trump administration have urged the 9th Circuit to take up their request to place an immediate hold, or stay, on Immergut’s orders on an “emergency timeframe.”

They argue that U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut “impermissibly second-guessed the Commander in Chief’s military judgments.”

Attorneys for the st

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