Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court agreed to allow the Trump administration to keep the National Guard in Washington, D.C., until the case is decided next year.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed unanimously to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked the troops from being sent to the city while court battles continue.
The judges wrote that the administration is likely to win in the courts. But the order was not a decision on the legality of the deployment. It only allows the troops to stay until the final ruling.
"Because the District of Columbia is a federal district created by Congress, rather than a constitutionally sovereign entity like the fifty States, the Defendants appear on this early record likely to prevail on the merits of their argument that the President possesses a unique power within the District -- the seat of the federal government -- to mobilize the Guard," the appellate judges wrote.
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