National Guard troops activated for a mission to Portland remained in limbo Wednesday, as legal proceedings dragged on even after an appeals court cleared a key hurdle for their deployment to the city.

This in part seems to reflect the lingering power of a second restraining order blocking the troops, even after an appeals court struck down the first one.

That first Oct. 4 order by a lower court judge, lifted Monday by a 2-1 majority on a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, had temporarily blocked federalized Oregon National Guard troops in particular from deploying in Oregon. A subsequent Oct. 5 order, issued after the administration moved to deploy National Guard troops from other states in Oregon, temporarily blocked federalized National Guard troops in general from

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