OAKLAND, Calif. - A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, ruling that the government failed to show justification for the deployment.

The ruling came just hours after federal agents used tear gas on demonstrators outside the city’s ICE building, where roughly 400 people marched Saturday.

At least six were arrested.

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President Trump has described Portland as "war-ravaged," but U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, issued a two-week restraining order, writing that the protests were "small and uneventful" and did not justify federal military involvement.

"She said that the federal government made no showing of anything current or imminent in Portland, and so that she felt that t

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