A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s order to send hundreds of California National Guard troops to Portland to replace troops from Oregon’s National Guard after the same judge blocked that deployment.

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, an appointee of Trump’s from his first term, said the order basically flouted her original ruling from Saturday, in which she shot down the president’s argument that crime in Portland was out of control and necessitated a federal response.

“How could bringing in federalized National Guard from California not be in direct contravention of the TRO that I issued yesterday?” she asked an attorney from the U.S. Justice Department.

Immergut said the order violated a federal statute and the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which divides

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