{"id":56786,"date":"2025-10-05T22:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/56786\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:27:09","slug":"oregon-judge-temporarily-blocks-trumps-national-guard-deployment-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/56786\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon: Judge temporarily blocks Trump\u2019s National Guard deployment in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n A federal judge in Oregon has granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard into Portland after the president announced he would send in troops to protect<\/a> what he calls a \u201cwar-ravaged\u201d city.\n <\/p>\n

\n The ruling by the Trump-nominated judge marks the latest setback to White House efforts to crack down<\/a> on Democratic-led cities it claims are stricken by crime and disorder, often in part by citing the need to protect ICE facilities from riotous protesters.\n <\/p>\n

\n District Judge Karin Immergut found that Oregon and the city of Portland \u201care likely to succeed on their claim that the President exceeded his constitutional authority and violated the Tenth Amendment,\u201d Immergut\u2019s opinion reads.\n <\/p>\n

\n Recent incidents cited by the Trump administration of protesters clashing with federal officers, \u201care inexcusable, but they are nowhere near the type of incidents that cannot be handled by regular law enforcement forces,\u201d the judge said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Trump administration \u201cmade a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power\u2014to the detriment of this nation,\u201d the judge wrote.\n <\/p>\n

\n The temporary restraining order expires in 14 days on October 18. The state plans to request an extension, according to Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Trump administration said in a new filing it will appeal the judge\u2019s decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.\n <\/p>\n

\n The administration had called for the federalization of 200 members of Oregon\u2019s National Guard, who officials had previously said were still training as of Friday evening and not in Portland.\n <\/p>\n

\n The order places the National Guard back under the command of Gov. Tina Kotek, Rayfield said.\n <\/p>\n

\n State and city officials on Saturday night applauded the judge\u2019s decision, saying it reaffirms there was no rebellion in the city or significant disruption in the weeks leading up to the administration\u2019s directive.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cToday\u2019s ruling is a healthy check on the president\u2019s power, and as the president, you must have actual facts based on reality, not social media or just your gut feeling, if you want to mobilize the military,\u201d Rayfield said at a news conference.\n <\/p>\n

\n Oregon\u2019s governor called the judge\u2019s decision a \u201ca step in the right direction.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe would hope that President Trump respects the court decision and the rule of law,\u201d Kotek said. \u201cWe would hope he reverses course.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Trump administration has been pointing to renewed unrest in both Portland and Chicago to justify a deployment of federal troops to the two Democrat-led cities, seizing on new rounds of protests and the recent arrest of a conservative influencer<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n President Donald Trump has authorized 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to \u201cprotect federal officers and assets\u201d in Chicago, the White House said, after protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near the city led to more than a dozen arrests on Friday.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here\u2019s what else we know about the situations in the two cities.\n <\/p>\n

\"Federal<\/p>\n

Portland attorneys argue \u2018perception versus reality problem\u2019<\/p>\n

\n Oregon and Portland officials jointly sued the administration this week after President Donald Trump announced he would send the National Guard to protect the city. The state says the order is illegal and has called the president\u2019s portrayal of the city \u201cwildly hyperbolic.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019ve said from the very beginning the number of federal troops that are needed or wanted is zero,\u201d Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said at a Saturday news conference.\n <\/p>\n

\n The president and his administration have cited weekslong demonstrations outside the Portland ICE facility, framing them as \u201cviolent riots\u201d tied to \u201cAntifa domestic terrorists.\u201d Local officials dispute that characterization, claiming in the lawsuit that protests were small until Trump\u2019s National Guard announcement brought renewed attention to them.\n <\/p>\n

\n On Friday, Judge Immergut heard nearly two hours of testimony over the legality of a possible National Guard deployment to the city.\n <\/p>\n

\n US Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton cited a variety of incidents he said make the National Guard deployment necessary.\n <\/p>\n

\n Hamilton accused demonstrators of blocking the entrance to the ICE facility, following ICE agents home and throwing incendiary devices, rocks and bricks at law enforcement. The facility closed for three weeks over the summer \u201cbecause of the violence,\u201d he said. CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and ICE for more details on the facility closure.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Caroline Turco, an attorney for the city of Portland, said what ultimately is happening in Portland is a \u201cperception versus reality problem.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe president\u2019s perception is it\u2019s World War II out here. The reality is, it\u2019s a beautiful city and a sophisticated police force that can handle the situation,\u201d Turco said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Judge Immergut on Saturday sided with the Oregon attorneys, saying they\u2019ve shown \u201csubstantial evidence that the protests at the Portland ICE facility were not significantly violent\u201d leading up to the president\u2019s directive.\n <\/p>\n

\n Oregon state attorneys also argued the use of Oregon\u2019s National Guard for civilian law enforcement does not fall within the narrow circumstances<\/a> \u2013 including \u201crebellion\u201d or invasion by a foreign nation \u2013 under which the president has the power to call state troops into federal action.\n <\/p>\n

\n Federal law also orders this type of action to be made<\/a> through state governors. Gov. Kotek has fiercely opposed the deployment.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

\n In her opinion Saturday, Immergut said the President was federalizing the Oregon National Guard \u201cabsent constitutional authority\u201d and protests in Portland \u201cdid not pose a \u2018danger of a rebellion\u2019\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n During the hearing Friday, the judge had asked the federal government lawyers whether Trump\u2019s use of his Truth Social platform to announce a Portland military operation constituted an official executive action.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cA social media post is going to count as a presidential determination that you can send the National Guard to cities? I mean is that really what I should be relying on?\u201d Immergut asked the defense.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThese posts reflect his decision-making which Secretary Hegseth carried out,\u201d the federal government\u2019s lawyer responded.\n <\/p>\n

\n Oregon Attorney General Rayfield said using social media was \u201cvery fitting\u201d with the administration\u2019s previous actions.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cA court of law is meant to be based in fact, not on social media trolling and gossip, and so I thought it was\u2026very illustrative for this administration to quote social media as facts to a judge,\u201d Rayfield said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Protests have continued outside the ICE facility in Portland this week, with Trump officials promising a surge of federal resources to the city and the DOJ launching an investigation into \u201cpotential viewpoint discrimination\u201d by Portland police after the arrest of Nick Sortor, a 27-year-old conservative influencer<\/a>, during protests.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s attempted crackdown in Portland follows similar efforts in Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Memphis \u2013 an effort met with impassioned pushback from Democratic leaders nationwide who argue the moves are politically motivated and lack justification.\n <\/p>\n

\n Last month, a federal judge in California ruled<\/a> that the Trump administration broke the law when it deployed thousands of federalized National Guard soldiers and hundreds of Marines<\/a> to suppress protests against ICE actions in Los Angeles.\n <\/p>\n

\n The decision barred troops from carrying out law enforcement in the state, but the White House has appealed the decision.\n <\/p>\n

\n Judge Immergut in her opinion said incidents in Portland are \u201ccategorically different\u201d from the violence seen in Los Angeles when the president federalized troops there.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cNeither outside the Portland ICE facility nor elsewhere in the City of Portland was there unlawful activity akin to what was occurring in Los Angeles leading up to June 7, 2025,\u201d the judge wrote.\n <\/p>\n

\n The temporary restraining order for Portland could potentially be extended at a hearing on October 17, Rayfield told CNN Saturday night. The judge could then issue a preliminary injunction at a merits hearing set for October 29.\n <\/p>\n

\n Oregon officials say there\u2019s a possibility the Trump administration will appeal the decision and seek a stay of the temporary restraining order as the case makes its way through the judicial system. The administration sought a stay of the temporary restraining order in California\u2019s National Guard court battle<\/a> in June.\n <\/p>\n

\"Demonstrators<\/p>\n

\n Rayfield said it\u2019s too early to tell how Saturday\u2019s ruling in Portland might impact how National Guard cases unfold in other states.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAll of these cases are very factually dependent,\u201d he said. \u201cThe facts in each jurisdiction will control on how the judge will rule in each jurisdiction.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Saturday expressed outrage over the plans to federalize 300 troops \u201cin the coming hours.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis morning, the Trump Administration\u2019s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will,\u201d Pritzker said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n

\n The governor said \u201cthere is no need for military troops on the ground in the State of Illinois.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to the Department of Defense for more information.\n <\/p>\n

\n The White House accused local leaders, including Pritzker, of refusing to quell \u201congoing violent riots and lawlessness\u201d in the state.\n <\/p>\n

\"Demonstrators<\/p>\n

\n Protests near Chicago have grown increasingly tense since beginning weeks ago \u2013 after local leaders got word<\/a> that \u201ca large-scale enforcement campaign\u201d would soon be underway in the Windy City as part of the Trump\u2019s sweeping immigration agenda<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n Officers in Chicago opened fire Saturday on an armed US citizen<\/a> who allegedly tried to run them over when they exited their vehicle after they were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by at least 10 cars, according to DHS.\n <\/p>\n

\n No officers were seriously hurt in the incident, officials said.\n <\/p>\n

\n On Friday, the latest round of protests<\/a> outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, resulted in the arrests of at least 18 people, as tensions over federal involvement in the state were set in relief by a visit from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.\n <\/p>\n

\n And in a separate incident that day, Alderperson Jessie Fuentes said she was handcuffed by agents for a brief period of time at a hospital in Chicago after getting a call about ICE officers at the emergency room and a detainee with a leg injury.\n <\/p>\n

\n Fuentes said she asked the officers if they have a warrant, and, \u201cNot only do they refuse to respond, but they respond with violence by shoving me in the emergency room.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, told CNN Friday that a detainee who complained of a leg injury was taken to the hospital for treatment and \u201cnearly 30 protesters, attempted to break into where the detainee was receiving medical care.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n A sweeping overnight raid<\/a> carried out by federal authorities at a Chicago apartment building earlier this week has also drawn condemnation. The multiagency operation led to the arrest of 37 undocumented immigrants \u2013 but also left the building\u2019s tenants and neighbors shaken.\n <\/p>\n

\n Adults and children alike were pulled from their apartments, crying and screaming, during the raid, which one neighbor characterized as a military-style \u201cinvasion.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge in Oregon has granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deploying the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-56786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}