Oregon’s Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Sunday that the state has filed a lawsuit to block President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to Portland, a day after Trump authorized federal troops to protect what he dubbed “War ravaged Portland.”

Rayfield, appearing with Gov. Tina Kotek and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, decried any attempt to send military troops to an Oregon city, calling it an infringement of state and local sovereignty and a violation of federal law as the suit was filed. Kotek said she shared her strong objections with Trump by phone for seven minutes on Saturday after waking up to his social media post.

“The facts cannot justify this overreach,” says the 41-page suit filed by the State of Oregon and City of Portland against Trump.

It notes that

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