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Of the 647 claims in Politics with evidence either way, 86% held up.
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The Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court's top prosecutor.
European governments are moving away from US tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.
Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco ruled last month that the troops sent to the Los Angeles area had been used illegally as a 'national police force.'
The California troops sent to Oregon overnight were taken under federal control during the summer after scattered protests broke out in Los Angeles.
National Guard forces are normally under the control of the states, with governors serving as commanders.
The president ordered as many as 400 members of the Texas National Guard to deploy for 'federal protection missions' in Portland, Chicago and potentially other cities.
The president has pushed to deploy National Guard troops in a number of major U.S. cities, most of them heavily Democratic.
Judge Immergut wrote on Saturday that the protests in Portland, which have been generally small, 'were not significantly violent or disruptive.'
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas fully backed the deployment.
Judge Karin Immergut of U.S. District Court in Oregon broadened her restraining order to cover 'the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any state or the District of Columbia in the state of Oregon.'
The Trump administration had tried to send hundreds of California National Guard troops to Portland, Ore.
A federal judge on Sunday night blocked the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of out-of-state National Guard troops to Oregon.
Elizabeth Goitein, a senior director at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school, said that the California National Guard troops sent to Portland were legally part of the federal armed forces.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon charged that the use of the out-of-state troops without their consent was an abuse of power and illegal.
The president ordered 200 members of the California National Guard who had been commandeered earlier this summer and sent to Los Angeles as part of another contested federal deployment to travel to Oregon support federal law enforcement.
Judge Immergut wrote on Saturday that the protests in Portland, which have been generally small, were not significantly violent or disruptive.
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas fully backed the deployment.
Judge Karin Immergut of U.S. District Court in Oregon broadened her restraining order to cover the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any state or the District of Columbia in the state of Oregon.
A federal judge on Sunday night blocked the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of out-of-state National Guard troops to Oregon.
President Trump turned to the Texas guard in a widening hunt for military forces to send to Democratic cities.
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