{"id":57714,"date":"2025-10-06T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/57714\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:30:10","slug":"portland-national-guard-what-we-know-about-a-federal-judge-temporarily-blocking-trump-from-sending-any-national-guard-troops-to-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/57714\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland National Guard: What we know about a federal judge temporarily blocking Trump from sending any National Guard troops to the state"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n For the second time in two days, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Oregon delivered a blow to the president\u2019s effort to send National Guard troops into Portland, temporarily blocking<\/a> the deployment of National Guard members from anywhere in the US to the city.\n <\/p>\n

\n The late Sunday ruling expanded on a more narrow Saturday ruling that prevented the administration from sending Oregon National Guard troops to the state\u2019s largest city, which President Donald Trump has said is necessary to quell protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility \u2013 a claim strongly disputed<\/a> by local and state officials.\n <\/p>\n

\n The hastily scheduled Sunday hearing came after officials in both Oregon and California objected in court to Trump reassigning federalized guard troops in Los Angeles to Portland in an apparent effort to get around the judge\u2019s Saturday order.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere is no rebellion in Portland,\u201d both states said<\/a> in a motion asking for the expanded order. \u201cThere are no laws that defendants are unable to execute with regular forces in Portland.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\"Law<\/p>\n

\n Portland is one of several Democratic-led cities where the Trump administration has called for the deployment of federal troops<\/a> in the name of protecting federal immigration personnel and property amid Trump\u2019s sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here\u2019s what we know:\n <\/p>\n

\n During Sunday\u2019s hearing, which lasted less than 30 minutes, US District Judge Karin Immergut pressed and occasionally interrupted the Justice Department\u2019s lawyer, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton, expressing frustration over what she characterized as an apparent attempt to sidestep her Saturday order.\n <\/p>\n

\"Karin<\/p>\n

\n \u201cMr. Hamilton, you are an officer of the court. Aren\u2019t the defendants simply circumventing my order?\u201d Immergut said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The judge noted the Saturday order blocking Oregon National Guard troops from being sent to Portland relied on her finding that the president appeared to have \u201cexceeded his constitutional authority\u201d by federalizing the troops because protests in Portland \u201cdid not pose a \u2018danger of rebellion.\u2019\u201d Conditions in Portland had not changed when the Trump administration moved to mobilize members of the California National Guard to the city instead, Immergut said.\n <\/p>\n

\n During Sunday\u2019s hearing, attorneys for the plaintiffs also pointed to a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling up to 400 Texas National Guard troops into service in Illinois, Oregon and other US cities. The attorneys argued any temporary restraining order blocking National Guard troops from California should also include troops from all 50 states and Washington, DC, which the judge agreed with.\n <\/p>\n

\n In granting the second temporary restraining order Sunday, Immergut blocked the Trump administration \u201cfrom deploying federalized members of the National Guard in Oregon.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n She also denied a Justice Department request to stay, or pause implementation of, the ruling.\n <\/p>\n

\n The temporary restraining order is in effect until October 19, and a hearing will be scheduled for October 17 to decide whether it should be extended for another two weeks.\n <\/p>\n

\n Even as the deployment was being debated in court, the increasingly contentious protests and counterprotests outside of the South Portland ICE facility continued Sunday night.\n <\/p>\n

\n Two people were arrested by the Portland Police Bureau overnight, the department said, bringing its total arrest count outside the building to 36 since nightly protests began in June. That figure does not include arrests made by federal law enforcement agents.\n <\/p>\n

Ruling is both celebrated and slammed<\/p>\n

\n About 100 California National Guardsmen arrived in Oregon early Sunday morning, and that deployment was expected to double by the end of the day before the judge issued her order, according to a sworn statement<\/a> from Brigadier General Alan Gronewold, the leader of the Oregon National Guard.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s actions are an effort to occupy and incite cities and states that don\u2019t share his politics, and I believe that we should expect him to continue to push the limits of his authority,\u201d Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said<\/a> in a statement late Sunday night. \u201cThe President can expect Oregon to stand up to him at every turn.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield praised the Sunday ruling by Immergut, writing in a post on social media:<\/a> \u201cThe president can\u2019t keep playing whack-a-mole with different states\u2019 Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.\u201d In a video response, he added, \u201cWe do expect the federal government to attempt to appeal this ruling.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe just won in court \u2013 again,\u201d California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a post on X<\/a> referencing the Sunday ruling. \u201cTrump\u2019s abuse of power won\u2019t stand.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Before Sunday\u2019s ruling, Newsom vowed to sue over the deployment of California troops in Portland. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about public safety, it\u2019s about power. The commander-in-chief is using the U.S. military as a political weapon against American citizens,\u201d the governor said in a statement<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n Meanwhile, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller issued a scathing critique of Sunday\u2019s ruling, calling<\/a> it \u201cone of the most egregious and thunderous violations of constitutional order we have ever seen.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere is no legal distinction between a state volunteering guardsmen to guard the border and volunteering guardsmen to guard a federal immigration facility,\u201d Miller said<\/a>. \u201cEither we have a federal government, a supremacy clause, and a nation, or we don\u2019t.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to the Department of Justice for comment.\n <\/p>\n

Chicago and other cities targeted by Trump<\/p>\n

\n The other city in the administration\u2019s crosshairs over the weekend was Chicago, where Trump authorized 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to \u201cprotect federal officers and assets\u201d against \u201congoing violent riots and lawlessness,\u201d over the objections of city and state leaders.\n <\/p>\n

\n Chicago and Illinois leaders filed suit<\/a> in federal court Monday, asking a judge to block the deployment, calling it \u201cillegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s a strategy Trump first deployed to quell anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles in June \u2014 the first time a president had federalized National Guard troops against the wishes of a state\u2019s governor in over half a century<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThey want mayhem on the ground,\u201d Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper on Sunday. \u201cThey want to create the war zone so that they can send in even more troops,\u201d he said, referencing last week\u2019s massive ICE raid at a Chicago apartment<\/a> complex that shattered windows and detained dozens of people overnight.\n <\/p>\n

\n Later Sunday, after learning of the plan to send Texas National Guard members to multiple states, including Illinois, Pritzker said in a statement<\/a>, \u201cWe must now start calling this what it is: Trump\u2019s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state\u2019s military troops.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\"Portland<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props,\u201d Pritzker added.\n <\/p>\n

\n The ramping up of pressure in Portland and Chicago comes as the Trump administration touts the effectiveness of a federal task force<\/a> deployed in Memphis to support local law enforcement.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201c273 arrests have been made in just under a week and 73 illegal guns seized,\u201d Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X<\/a> Sunday.\n <\/p>\n

\n While the task force is composed of federal law enforcement officers, the National Guard hasn\u2019t yet been officially \u201cstood up\u201d in the city and isn\u2019t expected to be up and running for \u201canother couple of weeks or so,\u201d Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis said during a community meeting Thursday.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second time in two days, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Oregon delivered a blow to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-57714","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\/57714","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=57714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}