The next twist in the whipsawing drama over whether President Trump can send National Guard troops into Portland will center on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The result could come quickly, if a similar case that played out in California this year is an indication.

The Trump administration says that a federal judge “impermissibly second-guessed the Commander in Chief’s military judgments” when she blocked National Guard deployments in a pair of orders over the weekend.

In an appeal filed Sunday , the administration rehashes much of the arguments it made unsuccessfully before U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut: that persistent protests at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility constitute a rebellion that risks law and order.

“The order imposes irreparable ha

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