PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Wednesday marked the first day of a federal trial that will decide whether President Donald Trump can deploy the National Guard to Portland.

During the first day, federal attorneys admitted that troops had been deployed to the city on Oct. 5, just hours after an Oregon judge issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against their arrival in Portland.

According to Department of Justice Attorney Jean Lin, email records revealed that the National Guard had arrived in the city around 11 p.m. and left at 2 a.m. This comes after U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut put the TRO in place the previous afternoon.

Judge Immergut, also the judge presiding over the current trial, said they would eventually discuss whether the move was a direct violation of the TRO.

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