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Lawyers for President Donald Trump and the state of Oregon clashed Thursday before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over Trump’s push to deploy National Guard troops to Portland — a high-stakes showdown marked by sharp accusations that the president’s actions were unlawful and unnecessary.

The three-judge panel, composed of two Trump appointees and one Clinton appointee, seemed deeply skeptical of the case made by Oregon Assistant Attorney General Stacy Chaffin, including her assertion that Trump’s descriptions of the violence in Portland were hyperbolic and "untethered from reality," in Chaffin’s telling.

Judges sharply questioned Chaffin about the specifics of the protests in Portland. Many of them focused on specifics,

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