U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut didn’t waste much time once Sunday night’s hearing got underway, pointedly asking the Trump administration’s lawyer how the president’s deployment of California National Guard troops and the mobilization of Texas National Guard troops to Oregon didn’t violate her initial temporary restraining order.

The night before, Immergut had issued a 31-page ruling blocking the call-up of 200 Oregon National Guard troops into federal service in Portland, finding their deployment violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

“Mr. Hamilton,” Immergut said, addressing attorney Eric Hamilton, “let me ask you how could bringing in federalized National Guard in California not be in direct contravention of the TRO I issued yesterday?”

Hamilton replied that t

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