A federal appeals court on Thursday paused a lower court’s order that would have ended President Trump’s National Guard deployment in DC.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily paused Judge Jia Cobb’s order that would have ended the troop deployment to DC by December 11.
Last month Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, ruled Trump’s troop deployment is illegal.
However, Cobb paused her own ruling until December 11 to give the Trump Administration time to appeal her decision.
Reuters reported:
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday handed a victory to President Donald Trump in his effort to keep National Guard troops in Washington, pausing a lower court order that would have ended the deployment in the coming days.
In a written order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit lifted an injunction that said the troops needed to leave the nation’s capital by December 11.
The D.C. Circuit’s order, while not a final judgment, allows Trump to continue a deployment he began this summer and has ramped up in response to a November 26 shooting of two National Guard members near the White House.
President Trump over the summer deployed the National Guard in DC because of the soaring crime.
President Trump in August announced that he is invoking Section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act to place Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department under “direct federal control” and authorizing the Secretary of Defense to deploy National Guard troops in Washington, DC.
Section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act allows the President to take control of the Metropolitan Police Department under “special conditions of an emergency nature.”
The President previously signed two executive actions, including invoking powers under section 740 and sending statutorily required letters to the DC Mayor and the necessary congressional committees. Section 740 requires the President to notify the committee chairmen and the mayor in order to federalize the Metropolitan police for more than forty-eight hours.
He also signed a Presidential memorandum directing the Secretary of Defense to utilize National Guard troops to clean up DC and authorizing state governors to use their National Guard troops at home.
“We will bring in the military if it’s needed,” Trump previously told reporters.
President Trump decided to deploy the National Guard to quell the violence in DC after DOGE worker Edward Coristine, AKA “Big Balls,” was severely beaten by a pack of thugs.
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