Trump’s Portland Deployment Allowed for Now by Appeals Court (3)

A US appeals court allowed for now President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon, to counter protests against his immigration crackdown, a major boost for the administration’s effort to send the military into Democratic-led cities.

A divided court in San Francisco on Monday lifted an order issued earlier this month that blocked the deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland, a liberal-leaning city that Trump has claimed without evidence is “burning to the ground” and overrun by “insurrectionists.”

The ruling doesn’t directly affect a second order by the same lower court judge that blocked ...