{"id":4165,"date":"2025-12-05T02:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/trump-can-keep-national-guard-in-washington-dc-for-now-appeals-court\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:40:32","slug":"trump-can-keep-national-guard-in-washington-dc-for-now-appeals-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/trump-can-keep-national-guard-in-washington-dc-for-now-appeals-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump can keep National Guard in Washington, DC, for now: Appeals court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Court grants stay on previous order giving timeline for troop withdrawal as administration considers response.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>A United States appeals court has issued a stay on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/21\/us-judge-orders-end-to-trumps-deployment-of-troops-in-washington-dc\">lower court\u2019s order<\/a> requiring the administration of US President Donald Trump to withdraw the National Guard from Washington, DC, in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The decision on Thursday by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit granted a Trump administration request for a pause on a previous order as it considers its response.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/27\/national-guard-members-shot-in-washington-dc-attack-identified\">National Guard members shot in Washington, DC, identified<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/28\/trump-pauses-immigration-from-third-world-countries-what-that-means\">Trump pauses immigration from \u2018Third World\u2019 countries: What that means<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/2\/rahmanullah-lakanwal-pleads-not-guilty-in-us-national-guard-shooting\">Suspect in US National Guard shooting pleads not guilty<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>District judge Jia Cobb had ruled in November that the Trump administration must withdraw federal troops by December 11, later extending the deadline by 21 days.<\/p>\n<p>In their order, the appeals court judges stressed that their decision to pause the order \u201cshould not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has deployed at least 2,000 National Guard troops \u2013 reservists who are not full-time soldiers \u2013 to Washington, DC, as part of what he has described as part of an anti-crime and beautification initiative.<\/p>\n<p>He has run into legal challenges as he has sought to do the same in Democrat-run cities across the country, including Los Angeles, California; Portland, Oregon; and Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>A ruling has been slower coming in the US capital, a federal territory where the president wields more authority.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Cobb ruled in November that the Trump administration had \u201cacted contrary to law\u201d by deploying the National Guard for \u201cnon-military, crime-deterrence missions in the absence of a request from the city\u2019s civil authorities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s decision comes days after two members of the West Virginia National Guard were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/27\/national-guardsmen-shot-in-washington-dc-what-happened-whos-the-suspect\">shot while on duty<\/a> just blocks from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>One member, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, later died from her wounds. Another member, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, remained in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have charged 29-year-old Afghan Rahmanullah Lakanwal for the attack, after which the Trump administration pledged to send 500 more members of the National Guard to the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court grants stay on previous order giving timeline for troop withdrawal as administration considers response. A United States appeals court has issued a stay on a lower court\u2019s order requiring the administration of US President Donald Trump to withdraw the National Guard from Washington, DC, in the coming weeks. The decision on Thursday by a &#8230; <a title=\"Trump can keep National Guard in Washington, DC, for now: Appeals court\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/trump-can-keep-national-guard-in-washington-dc-for-now-appeals-court\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump can keep National Guard in Washington, DC, for now: Appeals court\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}