This was yesterday:

On Saturday, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut in Portland temporarily blocked the Pentagon from sending 200 Oregon National Guard members to protect an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland from protests.

She rejected the Pentagon’s claims that Portland faced a “danger of rebellion,” and said “the president’s determination was simply untethered to the facts,” a week after Trump told military leaders that he planned to punish “dangerous” cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York by using them as military training grounds to combat “a war within.”

Note that Judge Immergut is a Trump appointee. The DoJ went through some maneuvers to get her to hear the Pentagon’s suit. So Trump didn’t deploy the Oregon Guard. He deployed the California Guard. Without Governor Newsom’s permission.

President Donald Trump sent 300 California National Guard troops to Oregon on Sunday, defying a court order blocking him from deploying Oregon’s own National Guard to patrol Portland in an ongoing White House campaign targeting Democratic cities.

Governor Newsom isn’t happy. He issued this statement:

In response to a federal court order that blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, President Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now. This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power. The Trump Administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself and putting into action their dangerous words — ignoring court orders and treating judges, even those appointed by the President himself, as political opponents.

This isn’t about public safety, it’s about power. The commander-in-chief is using the U.S. military as a political weapon against American citizens. We will take this fight to court, but the public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.

Needless to say, this is nuts. If Trump genuinely believes that “Antifa” has Portland under siege, that’s nuts. If he knows better and just to exercise power over a Blue city, that’s also nuts, and reckless, and illegal.

More tomorrow. See also Welcome to Portland, Where Trump’s Fever Dream Is America’s New Nightmare by Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone.