U.S. President Donald Trump unlawfully ordered National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., a federal judge ruled Friday, in a legal setback to the administration's use of the military in American cities.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut is the first to permanently block Trump's use of military force to quell protests against immigration authorities, which he is also attempting in Democrat-led Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
Immergut's ruling replaces her interim order that had prevented the Portland deployment.
Immergut, a Trump appointee, rejected the administration's claim that protesters at an immigration detention facility were waging a rebellion that legally justified sending in troops.
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