Did Oregon’s governor convince feds to leave? Or did President Trump abandon strategy to bring law and order to Democratic-led cities?

Federal and state officials started to discuss the drawdown within hours of a federal judge's order temporarily barring federal officers from using force, threats and dispersal orders against journalists and legal observers documenting the protests and law enforcement response. U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon, who is married to Democratic U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, rejected the federal government's argument that federal officers shooting journalists and legal observers with impact munitions in the back, neck and legs were "unintended consequences" of crowd control. Simon further said individual federal officers or supervisors could be held liable if they intentionally disregard his ruling.

"When wrongdoing is underway, officials have great incentive to blindfold the eyes of the Fourth Estate," Simon wrote. "The free press is the guardian of the public interest, and the judiciary is the guardian of the press."