Trump’s Power to Send Troops to Cities Faces Trial: The Brief

THE BIGGEST LEGAL test yet of President Donald Trump’s power to send troops into Democrat-led cities gets underway today in Portland, Oregon, with a trial over Trump’s deployment of National Guard to counter protests in the Pacific Northwest city, Erik Larson and Madlin Mekelburg report.

• The three-day trial will determine if protests against the administration’s immigration policy justified Trump’s attempt to send in 200 Oregon National Guard members. The case filed Sept. 28 by the state of Oregon and the city of Portland mirrors other lawsuits challenging Trump’s deployments in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC — none of which ...