Following a brief trial, a federal judge renewed a block of the Trump administration's efforts to federalize and deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, finding that even affording President Donald Trump a "great level of deference" did not override "credible evidence" that there likely was "no lawful basis" for that action.

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee , wrote Sunday that there was simply a mismatch between the president's determinations and the facts on the ground as to the level of threat that protests outside the Portland ICE facility posed to federal property and federal officers.

"Applying 'a great level of deference to the President's determination that a predicate condition exists,' this Court nonetheless concludes that the President's invocation o

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