Trump’s Portland National Guard deployment faces another setback
A US federal judge extended on Sunday an order blocking President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon, for five days pending a final ruling. The Republican president has sent the National Guard to three Democratic-led cities this year – Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis – but his efforts to deploy soldiers in Portland and Chicago have been tied up in the courts. Trump has repeatedly called the Oregon city “war-ravaged”, and riddled with violent crime, to...