U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to send troops into Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to counter immigration protests was met with mixed reactions in a pair of contentious court hearings Thursday, both of which ended without rulings.
A U.S. judge in Chicago was critical of whether there was legal support for sending troops to the Windy City. At the same time, a federal appeals court in San Francisco appeared to back Trump’s request to overturn a temporary order barring his deployment of the national guard to Portland.
Both cases hinge on whether the president’s determinations about the cities meet the le
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