PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A federal court ruling over whether President Trump can deploy the National Guard into Portland is expected to be delivered sometime Sunday, the day a temporary restraining order is set to expire.

US District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, presided over a 3-day trial earlier in the week. She previously issued two temporary restraining orders in the case, blocking the troops pending further litigation.

She found that Trump had failed to show he had met the conditions set out by Congress for using the military domestically. She described his assessment of Portland, which Trump called “war-ravaged,” as “simply untethered to the facts.”

One of Immergut’s orders was paused by a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals. But on Oct. 28, the a

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