Federal Overreach on Full Display: The Battle Over National Guard Deployment in Portland

The upcoming federal trial over President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, lays bare a troubling power struggle between Washington and local authorities—one that raises serious concerns about government overreach and respect for state sovereignty. At its core, this legal battle challenges whether the president followed the conditions Congress set for deploying the military on American soil. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, appointed by Trump himself, has already issued temporary restraining orders halting troop deployment due to insufficient evidence that those conditions were met. She rightly criticized the administration's portrayal of Portland as "war-ravaged" as "simply untethered...