President Donald Trump unlawfully ordered National Guard troops to Portland in Oregon, a federal judge has ruled in a legal setback to the administration's use of the military in American cities.

The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut is the first to permanently block Trump's use of military force to quell protests against immigration authorities. Trump is also attempting to do that in Democrat-led Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington DC. It replaces her interim order that had prevented the Portland deployment.

Immergut, a Trump appointee, rejected the administration's claim that protesters at an immigration detention facility were waging a rebellion that legally justified sending in troops.

Trump's attempts to use military force to tamp down unrest are a sharp break with longsta

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