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.
Judge Paula Xinis rejects government shutdown excuse in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, demanding witness with firsthand knowledge testify Friday about removal efforts.
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.
An attorney for the Justice Department, Eric Hamilton, reportedly responded that the California National Guard had been legally federalized in June. (A federal judge later ruled that the way in which Trump had deployed the Guard to Los Angeles over the summer had been illegal.)
The decision late on Sunday comes a day after the same judge barred the deployment of troops from the state of Oregon.
Judge Karin Immergut worked on Ken Starr’s investigation of Bill Clinton. Now she’s ruled against Trump’s attempt to send troops to Portland.
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.