Newsom says he will sue Trump for sending California National Guard to Oregon

Who needs a Reichstag fire when you can just pretend Portland's burning?

Here in Portland, this supposed city of darkness, happy kids splash around in a fountain next to the sparkling Willamette River, senior citizens practice tai chi in a park, bald eagles and ospreys soar past office building windows, chefs and bakers win national awards, world-class jazz musicians draw locals into clubs, and hiking trails course through the largest urban forest in the country, with glacier-draped Mount Hood as a backdrop. It’s har…

Trump's National Guard deployments strengthen amid legal resistance

President Donald Trump’s push to deploy National Guard troops to Democratic-run cities is gathering strength despite a wave of lawsuits and conflicting rulings from federal judges, as legal experts say his administration is finding firmer constitutional footing to protect federal property and personnel. Constitutional law expert John Shu told the Washington Examiner that the administration’s strategy, limiting National Guard activity to defensiv…

'Pay attention': Ex-Navy official sounds alarm over Trump's 'war on the American people'

In an article for Just Security published Monday, former Under Secretary of the Navy Janine Davidson argued that President Donald Trump’s recent “call to arms” is a deliberate and dangerous bid to mobilize the military against his domestic political adversaries.“A Trump-led deployment of federalized Guard and active-duty troops to quell a fabricated insurrection inside American cities, should only be understood as war on the American people," sh…

Trump’s troops return to a city that moved on: Dispatch from Portland

Five years after the city’s fiery 2020 protests, Portland is mostly calm. That hasn’t stopped Trump from reviving old battles.

Trump's use of the National Guard sets up a legal clash testing presidential power

President Donald Trump's plan to deploy the military on U.S. soil is sparking conflict with blue state governors that is playing out in the courts.

Federal Judge Boldly Blocks Trump’s National Guard Move In Oregon As Illinois Pushes Back On Chicago Deployment---'Outrageous & Un-American'

A federal judge has temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy the Oregon National Guard to Portland, even as his administration moved to send 300 Guard troops to Chicago. Clashes between the White House and Democratic governors who say the actions violate constitutional limits on presidential power continue to deepen. Source: Spencer Platt / Getty ABC News reports that U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary restra…