Cities nationwide back Oregon in National Guard deployment dispute with Trump | NYGazet

Forty-two cities and counties signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief by the Oakland-based Public Rights Project to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Monday.

City attorneys from around the nation, including Los Angeles and Chicago, joined together to side with Oregon and its request for a federal appeals court to keep in place a judge’s order barring the Trump administration’s mobilization of National Gua... [2399 chars]