City attorneys from around the nation, including Los Angeles and Chicago, joined together to side with Oregon and its request for a federal appeals court to keep in place a judge’s order barring the Trump administration’s mobilization of National Guard troops to Portland .

Forty-two cities and counties signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief by the Oakland-based Public Rights Project late Monday. The project provides litigation support to local governments.

Multnomah County’s lawyer was the only other attorney from an Oregon county or city to sign the brief to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

They argued that the federal government is trying to “unlawfully unleash military forces without factual justification” that could harm communities across the United States.

They said

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