{"id":128596,"date":"2025-11-08T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128596\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:18:12","slug":"us-judge-says-national-guard-illegally-ordered-to-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128596\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge says National Guard illegally ordered to Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump unlawfully ordered National Guard troops to Portland in Oregon, a federal judge has ruled, in a legal setback to the administration’s use of the military in American cities.<\/p>\n

The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut is the first to permanently block Mr Trump’s use of military force to quell protests against immigration authorities.<\/p>\n

The Republican president has sent the National Guard to three Democratic-led cities this year – Los Angeles<\/a>, the capital Washington and Memphis.<\/p>\n

However, his efforts to deploy troops in Portland and Chicago have been tied up in the courts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement that Mr Trump had exercised his lawful authority to protect federal officers.<\/p>\n

“President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities and we expect to be vindicated by a higher court,” Ms Jackson said.<\/p>\n

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\nFederal agents outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland<\/p>\n

The Oregon Attorney General’s Office did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n

Ms Immergut, a Trump appointee, said the administration had no lawful basis to claim that there was a rebellion in Portland or that the government was unable to enforce federal law due to the protests.<\/p>\n

“The occasional interference to federal officers has been minimal and there is no evidence that these small-scale protests have significantly impeded the execution of any immigration laws,” she said in her 106-page opinion and order.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump’s attempts to use military force to reduce unrest are a sharp break with long-standing but rarely tested norms against deploying troops on US soil.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration is likely to appeal the ruling and the case could ultimately reach the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The City of Portland and Oregon Attorney General’s Office sued in September, alleging the Trump administration was exaggerating occasional violence to justify sending in troops under a law permitting presidents to do so in cases of rebellion.<\/p>\n

Dueling narratives emerged during a three-day bench trial.<\/p>\n

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\nFederal agents detain an anti-ICE protester at an ICE building in Portland<\/p>\n

Justice Department lawyers described a violent siege overwhelming federal agents, echoing Mr Trump’s description of the city as “war-ravaged”.<\/p>\n

Protests sparked by a spike in immigration raids have caused unrest in parts of the country as Mr Trump has pushed for a massive wave of deportations, which was a hallmark of his 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Oregon and Portland said violence has been rare, isolated and contained by local police.<\/p>\n

Ms Immergut concluded in her order that the violence was small-scale, isolated, disorganised and had largely subsided by the time Mr Trump ordered in the National Guard in late September.<\/p>\n

Democrats have said the US president is abusing military powers meant for genuine emergencies such as an invasion or an armed rebellion.<\/p>\n

Ms Immergut blocked Mr Trump from deploying troops to Portland with an interim order on 5 October.<\/p>\n

The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals is considering the Trump administration’s appeal of that decision.<\/p>\n

Three judges, including Ms Immergut, have issued preliminary rulings that Mr Trump’s National Guard deployments are not allowed under the emergency legal authority cited by his administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump unlawfully ordered National Guard troops to Portland in Oregon, a federal judge has ruled,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-128596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}