US district judge agrees with Oregon assertion that deployment would likely inflame rather than calm protests in city
US district judge agrees with Oregon assertion that deployment would likely inflame rather than calm protests in city
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from deploying the national guard to Portland, Oregon, according to court documents.
Donald Trump had announced on 27 September that he would deploy troops to Portland, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary”, ignoring pleas from local officials and the state’s congressional delegation, who suggested that the president was misinformed or lying about the nature and scale of a single, small protest outside one federal immigration enforcement office.
A coalition of 17 mayors in the state had opposed the deployment. Oregon’s attorney general, Dan Rayfield, filed a lawsuit on Monday fighting the activation of 200 federalized members of the Oregon national guard.
In the restraining order released on Saturday, US district judge Karin Immergut – nominated by Trump – concurred with Oregon’s assertion that Trump deploying federalized national guard troops to Portland would likely inflame rather than calm protests, just as it did in 2020.
