A U.S. appeals court on Thursday handed a victory to President Donald Trump in his effort to keep National Guard troops in Washington, pausing a lower court order that would have ended the deployment in the coming days. In a written order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit lifted an injunction that said the troops needed to leave the nation's capital by December 11. The D.C. Circuit's order, while not a final judgment, allows Trump to continue a deployment he began this summer and has ramped up in response to a November 26 shooting of two National Guard members near the White House.

The order came in a lawsuit filed by District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb, a Democrat and the capital city's top legal officer. More than 2,000 National Guard soldie

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