U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut could make a ruling as early as Friday on whether to keep her broader order in place that bars federal deployment of any National Guard troops to Oregon.

Immergut has set a hearing by phone for 10 a.m. Friday to discuss the federal government’s motion to throw out the temporary restraining order.

Immergut could potentially rule at the end of the hearing, as she did when she first granted the order and when she extended it for another 14 days.

Immergut also directed lawyers to be ready at the hearing to discuss the “effect” of the pending call by a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to have all active judges on the court vote on whether an 11-judge 9th Circuit panel should take up the case.

If formed, the 11-judge panel would rev

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