The Trump administration’s latest bid to send the military into a Democratic-run city hit a legal wall over the weekend, as city and state officials in Portland, Oregon, sued to block what they called a “patently unlawful” troop deployment.

Filed on Sunday, the lawsuit targets a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that called 200 Oregon National Guard members into federal service.

The order followed President Donald Trump’s Truth Social blast, telling 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,” adding that he was “authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”

Portland has been a longtime punching bag of Trump’s, who has called it “a mess,” “a hellhole,” and—in his

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