President Donald Trump is trying to break evermore rules and laws is his expanding misuse of the National Guard he wants deployed in Democratic cities.

Last week, Oregon Federal Judge Karin Immergut, appointed by Trump himself, was unequivocal: the president could not federalize the Oregon National Guard for duty in Portland to deal with nonexistent crime waves and chaos.

Trump, who is not well known for taking no for an answer, immediately tried to skirt around her clear ruling by attempting to send federalized National Guard troops from California instead, forcing the judge to once again block his plans with some apparent frustration; at a hearing, she asked Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton: “You are an officer of the court. Aren’t the defendants simply circumventing my

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