A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily paused a lower court ruling that had called for an end to the deployment of National Guard troops to the streets of Washington, D.C.

In a one-page order, a panel of appellate judges issued an administrative stay to give them more time to consider the issue, writing that their move "should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion." The Trump administration has asked for a longer-term pause of U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb's ruling.

Cobb had concluded last month that President Trump's military deployment in the nation's capital, which includes a mixture of D.C. National Guard forces and Guard troops from other states, illegally intrudes on local officials' authority to direct law enforcement in the distr

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