The Trump administration has requested an appeals court to immediately halt a ruling blocking it from deploying the National Guard to Portland to quell violence in the city.

A U.S. district judge dealt President Donald Trump a legal setback on Saturday night, when she issued a two-week restraining order blocking his earlier activation of 300 troops to Oregon amid anti-ICE protests.

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Now, just one day later his administration is asking for a stay on the ruling by Monday, while it appeals the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

“The district court has entered an extraordinary order countermanding the President’s decision to call forth the National Guard to protect federal officers in Portland from violent attacks and to protect federal property from further damage. This Court should stay the order pending appeal, and should also grant an immediate administrative stay, as the Court has twice done recency for injunctions against defederalization and deployment of National Guard members in Los Angeles,” the court filing said, referencing a similar legal battle earlier this year after Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles amid similar anti-ICE protests.

The filing adds that U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut’s ruling temporarily blocking the Portland deployment “improperly impinges on the Commander in Chiefs supervision of military operations, countermands a military directive to officers in the field, and endangers federal personnel and property.”

“The balancing of harms thus weighs strongly in favor of interim relief pending appeal so that the National Guard may protect federal personnel and property while this appeal is pending, and this Court should also grant an immediate administrative stay pending consideration of that request for relief,” it concluded.

The legal feud between the state of Oregon and the Trump administration is not the only one set to play out over the National Guard deployment.

Earlier Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) claimed Trump sent 300 California National Guard members to Oregon in order to circumvent Immergut’s restraining order.

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He later announced his intention to sue the Trump administration over what he called an “appalling” and “un-American” troop deployment.

The White House has not yet confirmed the activation of the California National Guard to Oregon.