In the latest legal move after a dizzying day of court actions over the deployment of Oregon National Guard troops in Portland, the federal Justice Department late Monday asked U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut to lift her second broader temporary order that bars the president from placing any National Guard under federal control in Oregon.

The Justice Department’s action followed Monday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that put a hold on Immergut’s initial order that only barred the president’s federal deployment of Oregon National Guard members to Portland.

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