A US judge will not allow President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard members to the city of Portland, Oregon.
The ruling is the latest in a weeks-long court battle over whether the president violated federal law when he sent troops to a US city despite objections from local officials.
Troops were blocked from deploying to Portland by a temporary court order. Now that order is permanent.
The Portland deployment is part of a series of efforts from Trump to subdue protests against federal immigration officials in Democrat-led cities including Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington DC.
The decision by US District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, is the first time the Trump administration was permanently blocked from deploying troops to cities.
