Protesters and Portland Police Officers engage a vehicle that drove into the crowd outside of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images

A federal judge will weigh Friday whether to grant a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops into Oregon – the latest step in one of several challenges to Trump’s effort to crack down on Democrat-led cities he claims are stricken by crime and disorder.

Oregon and Portland officials jointly sued the administration earlier this week after Trump announced that he would send the National Guard to protect “war-ravaged” Portland . The state says the order is illegal and has called the president’s portrayal of the city “wil

See Full Page