The Trump administration’s effort to send troops to Portland hit another snag Friday afternoon, as an appeals court paused its ruling from earlier this week that had largely cleared the path for the mission.

The pause, which effectively reinstates a lower court’s restraining order that the appeals court had struck down, may well be temporary.

But it means courts are blocking the National Guard from deploying on the mission to Portland for at least a few days more—until Tuesday, Oct. 28, the new order says—as the jurists ponder its legality.

The latest order came from Judge Sidney R. Thomas of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Its purpose, he wrote, was to allow for the the appeals court to finish its consideration of whether to hear the case en banc —as a larger group.

The cou

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