President Donald Trump’s escalating rhetoric about Portland peaked last weekend when he seized control of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to deploy to what he claimed was a “war-ravaged” city .

Almost immediately, state and local Democratic leaders sued to block the extraordinary move and sought a temporary restraining to stop the deployment.

The rapid-fire response, which a federal judge plans to rule on as early as Friday afternoon, was nearly a year in the making.

Gov. Tina Kotek and a swath of state officials began meeting last December to plan around potential ways in which a second Trump administration could target Oregon, including a federal takeover of the National Guard, her office said in response to questions from The Oregonian/OregonLive.

According to a detailed ti

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