A pause in the Trump/Miller/Noem/Homan effort to take Blue state National Guard Troops from their Governor’s control and post them cleaning garbage and guarding buildings?
There is NO Emergency that would dictate a President needing to take the troops from their Governor’s control…
This is just Politics as Donald Trump HAS siad LOUD and CLEAR Outloud….
I won’t be surprised if Trump’s ‘Justive Dept’ appeals this to the Alito Court and they come down on Trump’s side….
Strange Times we ARE living in …
A federal judge on Saturday blocked the Trump administration from using Oregon National Guard soldiers in response to nightly protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Ore.
Judge Karin Immergut, of the U.S. District Court in Oregon, sided with Democrats who run the state government when she issued a temporary restraining order blocking the mobilization. President Trump and the Defense Department had ordered 200 Oregon soldiers for a 60-day deployment.
In her ruling, Judge Immergut wrote that she expected a trial court to agree with the state’s contention that the president exceeded his constitutional authority in mobilizing federal troops for local work and likely violated the 10th Amendment.
The soldiers have been training on the Oregon coast and were expected to be in place by the weekend, though federal officials have not said what duties they would perform beyond assisting ICE.
The restraining order expires in two weeks. During that time, the judge is expected to rule on a request for a longer injunction against the deployment. Federal lawyers have indicated they planned to appeal the restraining order, which is part of a larger lawsuit filed by Oregon and Portland that accuses the president of violating his constitutional authority.
The decision comes as the president pushes to deploy the National Guard in several major U.S. cities to combat crime and support immigration enforcement. On Saturday, Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, a Democrat, said that Mr. Trump planned to send 300 Guard troops to Chicago soon.
During almost two hours of arguments Friday, lawyers for Oregon’s attorney general, Dan Rayfield, contended that the president did not have the authority to use the National Guard at the ICE facility and warned that the arrival of federal forces would lead to greater violence.
State and city attorneys described Mr. Trump’s selection of Portland for deployment as “at best, arbitrary, and at worst, a politically motivated retaliation for the adoption of policies” that the president viewed as too liberal….
Update….
More Trump ‘Political’ moves against Portland?
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the Portland Police Department in Oregon, days after a conservative influencer was arrested amid a federal crime crackdown in the city.
Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, “signed, sealed [and] delivered!” a letter to Portland police about the investigation on Friday, according to a post from her X account.
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Portland Police chief Bob Day welcomed the DOJ’s scrutiny at a Friday presser, stating the department has worked with the federal government since a 2012 police reform agreement.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that the administration would open a federal investigation into Sortor’s arrest.
Last weekend, President Trump said he would call on the National Guard to go into Portland amid immigration protests. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield (D) said that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memo to Gov. Tina Kotek (D) “authorizing 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to perform federal functions for 60 days,” according to a post on X.
Trump also directed his team at the White House to review any federal aid meant to go to Portland that can be cut.
“We will not fund states that allow anarchy,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a press briefing on Friday….
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