Conrad Wilson

Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland earlier this fall.

Emmergen concluded there was some violence in June, but local law enforcement could handle it.

In the months since, the judge said demonstrations have been predominantly peaceful.

For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.

In a 106-page ruling, U.S.

District Court Judge Karen Emmerget found President Trump did not have a lawful basis to federalize the National Guard.

She also said her ruling did not mean the president can never deploy soldiers in Oregon or anywhere else, quote, if conditions on the ground justify the Guard's intervention.

The ruling follows a three-day trial over Trump's decision to send troops to protests outside a U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland earlier this fall.

Emmergen concluded there was some violence in June, but local law enforcement could handle it.

In the months since, the judge said demonstrations have been predominantly peaceful.

For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.

What a majority of the panel concluded is that the district court judge had essentially substituted her judgment

for the president's judgment in an inappropriate way.

The decision overturns one of two temporary restraining orders issued by a lower court judge blocking the federalization and deployment of the National Guard to Oregon.

Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, says the majority of the appeals court found the president's authority shouldn't be questioned over concerns such as an inability to carry out federal law.

In a dissenting opinion, an appeals court judge warned the majority was eroding constitutional protections, such as the right to protest the government and state sovereignty.

For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.