A divided US appeals court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, overruling objections from city and state leaders. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals approved the Justice Department’s request to stay a lower court’s order that had previously blocked the deployment, allowing the legal challenge to proceed while troops are sent, Reuters reported. A three-judge panel of the 9th US 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. The court said that sending in the National Guard was an appropriate response to protesters, who had damaged a federal building and threa

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