Dec. 5 (UPI) -- National Guard troops stationed in Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump's crime crackdown may remain for now, a federal appeals court ruled, blocking a lower court ruling that said their deployment was a federal overreach.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its brief ruling Thursday.
"The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion," the three-judge panel, including two appointed by Trump, said in the ruling.
Following months of threats to crack down on crime in the nation's capital and despite pushback from local leaders, Trump deployed some 2,200 National Guard troops from seven states and the District of Columbia to Washington, D.C., that have been patrolling its streets since Aug. 11.
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