After a federal judge on Saturday batted down the Trump administration's attempt to deploy 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland, this morning (Sunday, October 5) California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a press release saying that the president had ordered 300 California Guard members into Portland immediately.

"In response to a federal court order that blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard," Newsom wrote in the statement, "President Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now." Newsom went on to chastise the administration's actions as "a breathtaking abuse of law and power," adding that Trump is "ignoring court orders and treating judges, even those appointed by the President himself, as political

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