The Trump administration sent 300 federalized members of the California National Guard to Oregon on Saturday night and early Sunday, after a federal court had blocked President Donald Trump from deploying the Oregon National Guard in that state, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom of California. Newsom denounced the move as a “breathtaking abuse of power” and said California would sue.

The move came less than a day after Judge Karin Immergut of U.S. District Court in Oregon issued a temporary restraining order that prevented the Trump administration from mobilizing 200 Oregon troops for a 60-day deployment there. Trump had said the troops were needed to respond to demonstrations at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, but the judge wrote that the protests “were not sign

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