Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Sending Troops to Portland
A federal judge has permanently blocked President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to Portland.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued the 106-page ruling on Friday for the lawsuit filed after Trump sent troops to secure U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.
The state of Oregon, the city of Portland, and the state of California sued Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Defense Secretary Kristi Noem.
The ruling said that there wasn’t enough violence at the protests to require the National Guard, and local police broke up the fights.
“While violent protests did occur in June, they quickly abated due to the efforts of civil law enforcement officers,” the ruling said. “And since that brief span of a few days in June, the protests outside the Portland ICE facility have been predominately peaceful, with only isolated and sporadic instances of relatively low-level violence, largely between protesters and counter-protesters.”
🚨 Oregon National Guard to Portland Update:
US District Court Judge Karin Immergut has issued a final decision, permanently blocking President Trump from deploying the National Guard to Portland.
Last week, she extended the emergency stay until today's ruling.
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