New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- A federal judge halts Trump's Portland Guard plan, cutting through the bluster and exposing the stunt for what it was.

Washington -A federal judge in Oregon just put a hard stop on President Donald Trump's latest show-of-force script, a plan to muscle National Guard troops into Portland that read more like campaign spectacle than public safety. A judge temporarily blocked the plan, and the order quickly widened to cover any attempt to import out-of-state Guard units. The sequence revealed a familiar pattern with this White House: announce strength first, figure out the law later. To grasp how this fits into a broader pattern of political theater, compare it with how Chicago officials pushed back on a separate Guard a...