It argues that the U.S. Constitution reserves general police power to the states, while limiting the president’s ability to insert the military into domestic affairs. The suit emphasizes that for more than a century and a half, Congress has explicitly forbidden military involvement in civilian law enforcement. But we won’t be cowed, and we can’t let this President normalize military and armed federal policing in our country. The presence of federalized troops, it argues, would “chill economic activity” in Portland and across Oregon. The lawsuit situates Trump’s Portland deployment within a broader pattern of federal actions against Democratic-led states and cities.