Key Highlights
- In a unanimous decision issued Wednesday, the D. C.
- Circuit Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel indefinitely paused a previous order issued by a lower court requiring President Donald Trump to send thousands of Guardsmen home after they were deployed to the nation’s capital.
- The move comes after the court had previously frozen the same order while it weighed whether to extend the pause for a longer period of time, with Trump now permitted to keep members of the National Guard in D. C.
- through the end of February.
- The appeals court determined that the city’s unique status as a federal district created by Congress makes it likely that Trump will be successful in a lawsuit brought by D. C.’s attorney general over the deployment of guardsmen in the nation’s capital and other states, according to the order.
