Portland, National Guard and Trump
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Stephen Miller called a judge’s decision to temporarily block the Portland troop deployment “legal insurrection.”
The president insisted that U.S. District Judge Immergut—whom he appointed—should be “ashamed” of how she’d served him.
The home of a South Carolina judge was destroyed after it went up in flames on Saturday. A fire engulfed the home of Judge Diane Goodstein, who serves on the state Circuit Court, and led to three people being hospitalized with injuries, per The Post and Courier.
State law enforcement said Monday that investigation remains ongoing, but so far “no evidence” has been found “to indicate the fire was intentionally set.”
After the first ruling, Trump pivoted and ordered hundreds of members of the Texas and California National Guard to deploy to Oregon, forcing Immergut to issue a second injunction blocking deployment of any “federalized members of the National Guard” to the state.
President Trump is now increasingly at odds with his own appointees, a situation poised to boil over as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reviews multiple challenges to the administration's use of the National Guard.
The judge said it was “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court.”
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Trump administration policy to detain migrant children in adult facilities once they turn 18. On Saturday, U.S.