“We can’t let this president normalize military and armed federal policing in our country,” said the ACLU’s Hina Shamsi.

Calling a move by President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard soldiers to the city of Portland, Oregon, completely “unlawful,” state and city officials on Sunday filed a lawsuit to block the effort as they accused the Trump White House of overstepping its authority. The 41-page federal lawsuit challenging the “unlawful deployment” order was filed in the US District Court of Oregon and…

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