A divided U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump can send National Guard troops into Portland , Oregon, despite objections by the leaders of the city and state, giving the Republican president an important legal victory as he dispatches military forces to a growing number of Democratic-led locales.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department’s request to put on hold a judge’s order that had blocked the deployment while a legal challenge to Trump’s action plays out. Portland-based U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, who Trump appointed during his first term as president, ruled on October 4 that Trump likely acted unlawfully when he ordered troops to Portland.

One judge dissented while the other two ruled in Tru

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