Oregon judge blocks National Guard use at ICE, citing insufficient threat from Antifa protests.
An Oregon federal judge ruled Friday that Antifa’s nightly attacks on Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters weren’t dangerous or rebellious enough to warrant protecting the building with local or any other state’s National Guard soldiers. Judge Karin Immergut placed a „PERMANENT INJUNCTION“ on placing the federalized soldiers there, because she wasn’t convinced things were bad enough to use them.
Immergut, whom President Trump (45) nominated to the bench, basically said in her 106-page disquisition that things weren’t insurrection-y enough, after nearly six months of attacks, to call out the Guard, even though she lives there. She didn’t find the concerns of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, President Trump, or Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth particularly persuasive, either. In fact, she thought „the President did not have a ‚colorable basis for invoking'“ the earlier Newsom decision standard a previous decision I gave considerable background upon in Court to Oregon: Duh, of COURSE Trump Can Use National Guard at Portland ICE HQ.
„Colorable“ means she thought the administration was lying a lot about the issues with masked and violent and Antifa furry characters and costumed weirdos tossing explosives at the ICE HQ and the manpower depletion attendant to it.
PORTLAND, Oregon. ICE. The federal protective service et. al. came out to let cars out and the protesters went wild. pic.twitter.com/skbYC5kJI6— C.K. Bouferrache aka Honeybadgermom (@hunnybadgermom) September 29, 2025
One of my favorite parts of Immergut’s proof that the feds were lying about needing Guard troops was the word of the Portland Police, a Federal Protection Service official who said that he didn’t ask for the National Guard (Is this their job?), and how Secretary Noem „recounted on Fox News that she met with Portland Mayor Keith Wilson on October 7, 2025 and said that ‚if he did not follow through on some of these security measures for our officers, we [are] going to cover him up with more federal resources and that we [are] going to send four times the amount of federal officers here so that the people of Portland could have some safety, they could have some security.
