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The immediate consequence was messy but familiar: Trump got a courtroom loss, the White House insisted it was right anyway, and the deployment limped on because of the stay. Still, the ruling matters because it undercut the legal theory behind a signature law-and-order message and made the administration defend a militarized stunt that a judge said went beyond its authority.
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A federal judge ruled on Nov. 20 that the Trump administration’s deployment of more than 2,000 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., was unlawful. The order was stayed for 21 days, until Dec. 11, while the administration pursues an appeal.