A week after a judge permanently blocked their deployment in Oregon, hundreds of Oregon and California National Guard members remain—against the wishes of their states’ governors—under federal command in the greater Portland area.

“The soldiers are conducting planning and training but not engaging in any Federal Protection Mission operational activities,” a U.S. military spokesperson said via email Thursday. “We have no additional information to provide.”

The troops’ status, of being federalized but not deployed, reflects lingering legal questions surrounding the case even after a U.S. district judge permanently rejected the Trump administration’s legal arguments for the mobilization.

Oregon’s Guard members remain federalized away from their daily lives and inaccessible for service to t

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