So now Donald Trump is trying to send the military into Portland to break up protests. How is this even legal? —Appalled

By any rational reading of U.S. Code Title 10, Section 12406 and the Posse Comitatus Act, it’s not. Indeed, a federal district court found just that in June when California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued Trump for a similar stunt in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed that ruling while it pontificates about the case, a process that makes the FDA’s approval of the COVID vaccine seem speedy. (Decisions typically take six months to a year, so expect a verdict sometime between Christmas and the Fourth of July.)

But all this has been ably reported elsewhere—including on page 6 of this very newspaper! The real question is how Portland will resp

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