The Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed Wednesday that members of the National Guard were briefly sent to Portland, Ore., earlier this month despite a judge’s order barring their deployment.

Jean Lin, a DOJ lawyer, told U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut that Oregon National Guard troops were dispatched to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in the city between 11 p.m. local time on Oct. 4 and 2 a.m. on Oct. 5.

But at 3:40 p.m. on Oct. 4, Immergut handed down a temporary restraining order, or TRO, blocking the administration’s use of Oregon troops called into federal service. She placed restrictions on all guard troops the next day in a second order.

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