Oregon officials are pushing back in court against President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to send National Guard troops to Portland . And so far, they’re winning. A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s order to militarize the Oregon National Guard to defend federal immigration agents in Portland and—when Trump tried to get around that ruling—also stopped his effort to deploy the California National Guard to the city.

Trump’s efforts put the country on a path toward using the military for law enforcement, and Oregon challenged Trump in court to draw a “bright line,” Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield tells TIME.

The protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in the city don’t justify sending in the military, Rayfield says. “It’s foundational in our dem

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