Judge Blocks National Guard Deployment to Portland

A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Portland — the same day federal agents unleashed tear gas and mace on anti-ICE agitators after more than 100 straight days of unrest.

US District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump nominee, ruled Saturday that deploying active-duty troops to secure the “war ravaged” Oregon city would violate the US Constitution and federal law barring military involvement in domestic law enforcement.

“The relationship between the federal government and the states, between the military and domestic law enforcement, and the balance of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government,” she wrote in her ruling.

“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.”

In her ruling, Karin pointed out that scores of demonstrations held outside a south Portland immigration facility were not notably violent or disruptive in the days and weeks before Trump’s order.

“Overall, the protests were small and uneventful,” she wrote.

“The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts.”

He then ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to unleash “all necessary troops.”

State officials immediately sued to block the president from deploying troops – which Trump has already sent to Democratic-run cities where protests have erupted, including Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Chicago and Memphis.

To punish local officials for the ongoing unrest, Trump on Friday ordered his administration to identify federal funds to cut in Portland.