President Trump cannot deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Ore. , a federal judge ruled Saturday.

Trump had announced plans to send 200 Guard members into the city , and his administration appealed the judge’s decision late Saturday.

“This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs,” District Judge Karin Immergut, a 2019 Trump appointee , wrote in her decision. “This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.”

During his second term, Trump has sent National Guard troops to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., while threatening to do so in a number of other cities, including Chicago , Memphis and Portland. He has occasionally met resistance from federal ju

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