Judge Blocks Trump From Deploying Any National Guard Troops to Portland

A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday blocked a move by President Donald Trump to deploy members of the California National Guard or any other state’s National Guard to Oregon after a judge temporarily blocked him from deploying the Beaver State’s own guardsmen to Portland in an earlier ruling.
In a temporary decision in response to a lawsuit from Oregon and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, federal Judge Karin J. Immergut blocked the administration from deploying National Guard to the city.
“What was unlawful with the Oregon National Guard is unlawful with the California National Guard,” Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said in a news conference about the emergency petition earlier Sunday. “The judge’s order was not some minor procedural point for the president to work around like my 14-year-old does when he doesn’t like my answers.”… 

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