PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - On Tuesday afternoon, Oregon asked a court to block the federal government from sending out-of-state National Guard members to Portland. A short-term court order called a “temporary restraining order (TRO)” currently blocks that from happening.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued two temporary restraining orders early this month — one that prohibited President Donald Trump from calling up the troops so he could send them to Portland, and another that prohibited him from sending any National Guard members to Oregon at all, after the president tried to evade the first order by deploying California troops instead.
On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump can take command of 200 Oregon National Guard troops. However, Trump is still bar