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How long can the law block Trump and the National Guard?

The lead starts right now.

Lawsuits flying left and right as the president tries to send in the National Guard into two major U.S. cities,

how far will this legal showdown go?

As Democratic leaders in these cities say the deployments are intentional to create chaos with troops used as political pawns.

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Welcome to the lead. I am Jake Tapper. We're going to start with breaking news in our national lead.

Legal battles erupting over the White House's moves to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops into two Democratic-led cities, Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois.

CNN has correspondence on the ground in both of these cities, and we're going to go there in a moment.

The Trump administration says National Guard deployments there are meant to quell anti-ice protests outside

immigration detention facilities and to protect federal law enforcement. Democrats, however,

are calling this an abuse of power and an invasion of National Guard troops. Now the state

of Illinois and the city of Chicago are suing

the Trump administration. Meanwhile, over the weekend in Oregon, a federal judge appointed by Trump

temporarily blocked his troop deployment to Portland from anywhere in the country. And the White

House is today pushing back.

With all due respect to that judge, I think her opinion is untethered in reality and in the law.

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