The appeals court's announcement came hours after a federal judge heard arguments on whether she should dissolve an order stopping the deployment.

Lawyers for the state of Oregon allege federal attorneys severely mischaracterized the number of federal police officers sent at any given time to Portland over the summer, and that the error undercuts the federal government’s argument for deploying National Guard troops to the city.

The deployment of National Guard troops on the streets of Washington faces challenges in two courts on Friday — one in the nation’s capital and another in West Virginia — while across the country a judge in Portland,

The federal government will not be able to deploy any Oregon National Guard troops to Portland, at least until Tuesday. That’s because the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday put a temporary hold until then on a three-judge panel’s ruling that had opened the door for the federal deployment of Oregon troops to the city.