In the days before President Trump announced that he would send troops to what he called a “war-ravaged” Portland, Ore., federal officers had described the protests there as “low energy.” Anna Griffin, who is reporting in Portland for The New York Times, describes what she’s seen there.
On Thursday morning, three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit — two of them appointees of President Trump — will hear arguments on whether the president has unfettered authority to deploy troops even to U.S. cities or whether Mr. Trump has become “untethered to the facts.”
At issue is the lawfulness of Mr. Trump’s effort to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., which the White House on Tuesday called “a wa
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