Last month, a federal judge found that President Donald Trump’s deployment of members of California’s National Guard against the wishes of California’s governor was illegal. That didn’t stop Trump from doing the same in Oregon this weekend.

“I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” he wrote on Truth Social. A defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity called Trump’s claims “nonsense.” A similar deployment of troops to Los Angeles earlier this year was found to be illegal by a federal judge.

Hegseth issued a memorandum , on Sunday, calling into federal service 200 members of the Oregon National Guard, agains

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