Trump Appeals Trial Loss Over Portland Troop Deployment Plan (1)

The US on Friday appealed a judge’s order that permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, to counter protests against his immigration crackdown.

The Justice Department seeks to overturn a Nov. 7 finding by a federal judge in Portland who held the first trial over Trump’s effort to deploy troops to Democratic-led cities. The judge, who was appointed by Trump in his first term, ruled the deployment was unlawful.

Oregon and the city of Portland, which Trump described as “war ravaged,” sued in September to block Trump’s planned deployment of 200 National ...