National Guard troops temporarily blocked from deploying to Portland, judge finds [View all]

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https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/national-guard-troops-temporarily-blocked-from-deploying-to-portland-judge-finds.html
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive

A judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to halt its mobilization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to protect the ICE building in Portland and its officers amid nightly protests.

U.S. Department of Justice lawyers have vowed to immediately appeal the ruling and ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to put a hold on the judge’s order.

In a 31-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut rejected the federal government’s assertion that Portland faces a “danger of rebellion” and said she wasn’t persuaded by the U.S. Justice Department’s argument that “regular forces” are unable to execute federal law.

Lawyers for the U.S. government also failed to show that federal officers need backup from the National Guard to protect the building or themselves, Immergut found.

The state and the city of Portland, the judge wrote, provided substantial evidence that the protests at the ICE office in South Portland “were not significantly violent or disruptive in the days - or even weeks - leading up to the President’s directive,” issued last weekend.

She also found that the sniper shooting a week earlier at an immigration building in Dallas doesn’t provide grounds as the federal government asserted for the Portland mobilization.

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