Judge Blocks Trump's National Guard Deployment to Portland

A federal judge in Portland, Oregon, permanently blocked President Donald Trump on Friday from deploying National Guard troops to the city, ruling that the administration exceeded its authority in federalizing state forces to protect a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility amid ongoing protests.

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, issued the 106-page order after a three-day bench trial last week that examined the legal basis for the president's September 27 directive. The ruling found that the deployment violated the 10th Amendment, which reserves powers to the states, and Title 10, Section 12406 of the U.S. Code, which limits presidential authority to call up the National Guard for domestic use to situations involving rebellion or when federal laws cannot be enforced through ordinary means.

Immergut determined that conditions in Portland did not meet these thresholds. Protests outside the ICE building on the city's South Waterfront neighborhood had occurred nightly since June, but evidence from the trial, including testimony from federal, state, and local law enforcement, showed that initial violence in mid-June quickly subsided due to police...