Federal judge permanently blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland

A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration’s attempt to station National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon, is unconstitutional.

On Sunday, US District Judge Karen Immergut, a Trump appointee, temporarily extended an order barring the administration from deploying troops in the Pink City, saying the government had failed to justify the move.

In an order Sunday evening, Immergut temporarily barred the defendant Defense Minister [Pete] Hegseth was able to implement “memorandums that authorized the federal establishment and deployment of National Guard members from Oregon, Texas, and California to Portland.”

The injunction remained in effect until Friday.

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Friday’s 106-page ruling makes the matter permanent.

It followed a three-day trial over whether protests at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland justified the use of the military domestically under federal law.

The administration said the troops are necessary to protect federal employees and property.

Portland police are accusing federal forces of sparking anti-ice protests, which the city claims were non-violent

Law enforcement officers walk out the doors of an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, toward protesters, October 11. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

“The evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by the governor of Oregon and were not requested by federal officials responsible for protecting the ICE building, exceeded the authority of the president” because he was unable to prove the existence of insurrection or a threat of insurrection that could not be carried out without the military, Immergut said in the ruling.

The judge added that “even with great regard for the President’s decision, the President had no legal basis for federalizing the National Guard.”

Immergut called the order unconstitutional, saying it violates the 10th Amendment, “which reserves to the states any powers not expressly delegated to the federal government in the Constitution.”

Federal agents stand outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. (Mathieu Louis Rolland/Getty Images)

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The city of Portland and the state of Oregon filed a lawsuit against the administration over the deployment of troops in September after Hegseth sent 200 soldiers to the city.

The administration has the right to appeal the decision.

The administration also faces a temporary injunction in Chicago, where a judge has blocked the administration from deploying troops.