Judge blocks deployment of National Guard to Portland, says Trump exceeded authority

The justice issued an bid past period temporarily blocking the deployment.

A national justice ruled connected Friday that Donald Trump "exceeded the President's authority" erstwhile helium sent federalized National Guard troops into Portland. 

In a 106-decision, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut made imperishable an bid she issued past period blocking the deployment into the city. 

"The grounds demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon's politician and not requested by the national officials successful complaint of extortion of the ICE building, exceeded the president's authority," the justice wrote.

Federal officers enactment up arsenic radical instrumentality portion successful a protestation organized by Portland Contra Deportaciones, astatine the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) installation successful Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 25, 2025.

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After a three-day trial, Immergut rejected the Trump administration's statement that immigration-related protests amounted to rebellion oregon information of a rebellion -- the modular needed to warrant a national takeover of the National Guard. 

"When considering these conditions that persisted for months earlier the President's federalization of the National Guard, this Court concludes that adjacent giving large deference to the President's determination, the President did not person a lawful ground to federalize the National Guard" she wrote. 

With Trump threatening to nonstop the National Guard into Democratic-run cities crossed the country, Immergut acknowledged the magnitude of the contented successful her order, penning the ineligible contented was bound for a higher court. 

"The 'precise standard' to demarcate the enactment past which conditions would fulfill the statutory modular to deploy the subject successful the streets of American cities is yet a question for a higher tribunal to decide," she wrote. 

In precocious September, Trump issued an bid federalizing 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to support national property amid ongoing protests astatine a Portland ICE facility, contempt objections from section officials.

The metropolis of Portland and authorities of Oregon sued.

Around the aforesaid time, Trump sought to deploy Guard troops to Chicago -- a determination that was likewise opposed by section officials and blocked by the courts.

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