Seeking to preserve the “status quo” while it ponders the deeper legal questions before it, a federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that federalized National Guard members may for now remain under President Donald Trump’s control, but that they still may not be deployed into Portland.

The order, from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, offers temporary clarity on whether the Pentagon could retain control of the federalized troops even after a district judge temporarily blocked the mission to Portland for which they had been mobilized.

Guard members from Oregon and California had been brought into federal service against the wishes of the states’ governors, who normally are their commanders in chief. After court orders blocking the mobilization this

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