Hours before a temporary restraining order was set to expire, a federal judge on Sunday evening blocked the Trump administration’s effort to deploy the national guard to Portland for at least a few days more.

The order, by U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, is not her final ruling on Oregon’s lawsuit to stop Trump from deploying federalized members of the National Guard to the city.

Rather, it is a preliminary injunction, which buys Immergut more time to review the record from the trial of State of Oregon v. Trump, which concluded this past Friday, before she issues a final ruling.

Still, the injunction order nonetheless offers insight into the judge’s thinking in the wake of the trial. In it, Immergut affirmed that the Trump administration’s federalization of the National Guard

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