FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS: A federal judge late Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after a legal whirlwind that began hours earlier when the president mobilized California troops for Portland after the same judge blocked him from using Oregon’s National Guard the day before.
During a hastily called evening telephone hearing, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut granted a temporary restraining order sought by California and Oregon.
Immergut, who was appointed by Trump in his first term, seemed incredulous that the president moved to send National Guard troops to Oregon from neighboring California and then from Texas on Sunday, just hours after she had ruled the first time.
At the emergency hearing held late Sunday, Immergut questioned the attorney representing the federal government, accusing them of attempting to circumvent her order temporarily halting the deployment of National Guard troops in Oregon.
“How could bringing in federalized National Guard from California not be in direct contravention to the temporary restraining order I issued yesterday?” she asked.
“Aren’t defendants simply circumventing my order?” she asked later. “Why is this appropriate?”
The AP reports that lawyers for the federal government said Oregon and Portland “did not have standing and that California could show no harm by having some of its National Guard dispatched to another state.”
The judge, preposterously and unlawfully, enjoined the federalizing of the Oregon national guard to defend a federal facility under attack.
Sending guard already under federal control, or guard volunteered by another state, for a federal mission, were in no way impacted by the…
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 6, 2025
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