The federal trial in Portland over President Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops to the city continued Thursday, two days after a majority of the judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to reconsider an earlier decision by the court to allow the deployment.

The Portland-based judge who barred the troops’ deployment to the city earlier this month questioned federal government lawyers over why a small group of National Guard troops were at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in South Portland on Oct. 4 and remained there for hours even after she had issued the temporary restraining order.

Meanwhile, on the night before Halloween, protesters outside the ICE building got in the holiday spirit.

Here’s what we know this morning.

Feds in Portland

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