US President Donald Trump unlawfully ordered National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, a federal judge ruled Friday in a legal setback to the administration’s use of the military in American cities. The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut is the first to permanently block Trump’s use of military force to quell protests against immigration authorities. Trump is also attempting to do that in Democratic-led Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. It replaces her interim order that had prevented the Portland deployment.

Karin Immergut said earlier she ‘found no credible evidence’ that protests in Oregon city were out of control

The Trump administration did not have a legal basis to use troops to quell immigration protests, the judge wrote in a 106-page ruling.