Trump has declared war on Portland; the invasion begins tomorrow.

Oregon’s Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Sunday that the state has filed a lawsuit to block President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to Portland, a day after Trump authorized federal troops to protect what he dubbed “War ravaged Portland.”

He received notice from the governor’s office at 9:32 a.m. Sunday that the U.S. Department of Defense had sent an email revealing that Trump had invoked a section of federal law to call 200 members of the Oregon National Guard into federal service in the city for 60 days, under the U.S. Northern Command.

Rayfield, appearing with Kotek and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson during a virtual news conference, decried any attempt to send military troops to an Oregon city, calling it an infringement of state and local sovereignty and a violation of federal law as the suit was filed.

“The facts cannot justify this overreach,” says the 41-page suit filed by the State of Oregon and City of Portland against Trump.

It notes that protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland have been small in recent weeks, typically drawing [fewer] than 30 people.

And the facility is small and not central. It’s like declaring war because a suburban drugstore ran out of bandaids.

Trump has moved to federalize National Guard troops under federal law, known as Title 10, Section 12406. That says the president can call up the National Guard in federal service when the president is unable with regular forces to “execute the laws of the United States,” repel an invasion by a foreign nation, or suppress a rebellion or the danger of a rebellion against the authority of the U.S. government.

Are any or all of those happening in Portland? No. Trump is brazenly flouting the law.

Rayfield’s office moved to file the suit as soon as possible and will be filing a temporary restraining order within the next 24 hours to try to block an arrival of troops. He said he hopes to get a hearing before a judge later this week.

“In America, we don’t use our United States military on our own citizens, except in extreme circumstances,” Rayfield said.

The only extreme circumstance here is Trump’s determination to be a dictator.