Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A federal judge has extended orders preventing President Donald Trump from sending the National Guard into Portland, Ore.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut Wednesday extended two temporary restraining orders that would have expired later this week. The extension applies for another 14 days. The case is scheduled for trial on Oct. 29.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is weighing whether to grant the administration's request to lift one of the orders that keeps it from sending troops in the state. Immergut said that if the Ninth Circuit rules against the temporary order on deployment, she will file an order to end her extension.
Immergut set the restraining orders on Oct. 5 after the Trump administration said it planned to send 200 federalized California National Guard troops to Portland to suppress protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the city. She had ruled on Oct. 4 that the president could not federalize Oregon's National Guard. The next day, her restraining orders stopped him from calling in National Guard troops from other states.
"This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law," she wrote in one of the orders, The Hill reported.
