FROM FOX NEWS: A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, was unconstitutional.
On Sunday, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, temporarily extended an order blocking the administration from deploying troops to The Rose City, saying the government failed to justify the move.
In the Sunday evening order, Immergut temporarily blocked “Defendant Secretary of Defense [Pete] Hegseth from implementing” memorandums that authorized the federalization and deployment of National Guard members from Oregon, Texas and California into Portland.
The injunction had been in effect until Friday, but Immergut‘s 106-page ruling makes the order permanent.
The three-day trial explored whether the protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland warranted use of the military domestically under federal law, Fox notes.
The administration argued that troops were necessary to protect federal personnel and property, but Immergut said the “evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building, exceeded the President’s authority” as the defense did not provide evidence of a rebellion or threat of rebellion that necessitated the military.
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