The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday ruled that President Trump's National Guard deployment can continue in Washington, D.C., for now, overruling a lower court.
The three-judge panel ruled unanimously that Trump may prevail in his argument that the president “possesses a unique power” to mobilize the National Guard in the nation's capital, which is a federal district, The Associated Press reported.
The ruling stays a Nov. 20 order by U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb, which said that the deployment illegally intruded on local officials’ authority to direct law enforcement in the District of Columbia.
