Like many elected officials in Oregon, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson on Monday decried the decision by a federal appeals court panel to overturn a judge’s order and clear the path for President Donald Trump to deploy national guard troops to the South Waterfront.

Wilson in a Monday afternoon statement said, as he’s said before, that the city will “use every lawful tool to prevent this overreach.”

In the days leading up to the ruling by the panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Wilson has tried to find his own path to fight the deployment. One tactic he’s used in recent weeks is through the power of the pen, now having written opinion pieces in both Time Magazine and now Newsweek.

In a Sunday opinion piece in Newsweek, he lambasted the Trump Administration’s deployment of fed

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