A Donald Trump-appointed federal judge has blocked the president’s deployment of the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, ruling that the argument that the city was the site of civil unrest was “untethered to facts.”

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, who Trump appointed during his first term, argued that the deployment of troops to Oregon risked violating the Constitution, writing, “This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”

Judge Immergut also found that the deployment was based on false claims about immigration authorities being the target of routine violence. Trump described Portland as “war-ravaged” in his post announcing the deployment of soldiers to the Democrat-controlled city.

“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretar

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