A federal judge has granted the state of Oregon a temporary restraining order, legally prohibiting the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland through at least October 18. The decision comes a week after Trump announced in a Truth Social post he would be sending troops to the “war torn” city of Portland, and six days after the state and city of Portland filed a lawsuit to prevent the deployment, which included the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order.

In a sharply worded order, US District Court Judge Karin Immergut said the US government failed to prove protests in Portland have risen to a level requiring National Guard intervention. Innergut wrote that if the Trump administration’s arguments for deploying troops were accepted, it would “risk

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