A US federal judge in Oregon on Friday evening ruled that President Donald Trump unlawfully seized control of state National Guard units to police protests in Portland, issuing a sweeping injunction that sharply curtails the White House’s claimed power to deploy guard troops over a state’s objection.

In a 106-page opinion, US District Judge Karin Immergut held that Trump’s federalization of 200 Oregon National Guard members, followed by deployments involving federalized California and Texas Guard troops to a single Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, exceeded his statutory authority and violated the Tenth Amendment’s protections for state sovereignty .

Judge Immergut concluded after a three-day bench trial that even affording “great deference” to the p

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