Attorneys returned to court in Portland Thursday as U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut hears further arguments over the legality of domestic military deployment to Portland.

On Thursday, lawyers for the city of Portland and the states of Oregon and California pressed their case in federal court against a National Guard deployment that none say they want or believe is legal.

Their attorneys spent the morning taking aim at federal law enforcement’s use of force at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building at Portland’s south waterfront, where persistent protests since June have become the epicenter of the troop deployment debate.

Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice, meanwhile, struck a defensive posture. They made a case that federal law enforcement at the build

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