A ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week—overturning an injunction against the Trump administration’s plan to deploy National Guard troops within Oregon—apparently clears the way for the deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland over the state’s own objections. The ruling reversed Judge Karen Immergut’s earlier decision, which held that Trump’s claim of an “emergency” was not consistent with the facts on the ground. It effectively authorizes a federally-directed military presence in a city that, until now, had remained relatively tame in its anti-ICE protests.

Granted, Portland has had a recent history of persistent—and sometimes

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