West Coast states opposed to the Trump administration's attempted use of their National Guard troops to police the city of Portland won a quick reprieve from a federal judge late Tuesday.

Early Tuesday, the attorneys general of Oregon and California asked U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, who was appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term in office, to wait before staying one of her own restraining orders previously issued in the case.

One such restraining order, to a certain extent at least, may not be long for this earth — after a similar order was stayed by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Monday.

But the issues here are plainly not cut and dry.

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