Three judges will decide “as quickly as possible,” they said, whether to uphold a temporary order barring President Donald Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland.

U.S. Circuit Judges Susan Graber, Ryan Nelson and Bridget Bade heard oral arguments Thursday morning from the state of Oregon and the Trump administration in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

Lawyers for the federal government are appealing a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from deploying 200 Oregon Guard troops to Portland to guard federal buildings, and particularly an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building south of downtown where mostly small, peaceful protests have taken place throughout the summer.

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