The ongoing battle between the Trump administration and Democrat-led cities intensified this weekend, with a federal judge in Oregon hitting pause on the president’s plan to deploy
federal troops in Portland, and the White House announcing authorization for hundreds of National Guard members
to be sent to Chicago.
District Judge Karin Immergut
granted a temporary restraining order Saturdayblocking Trump from sending the National Guard to Portland, ruling that city and Oregon officials “are likely to succeed on their claim that the President exceeded his constitutional authority and violated the Tenth Amendment” in ordering the deployment.
Immergut – a Trump appointee – said the president appeared to have federalized the Oregon National Guard “absent constitutional authority” and that protests in Portland “did not pose a ‘danger of a rebellion.’”
Demonstrators both for and against the National Guard deployment rallied outside the building, according to
CNN affiliate KATU, whose crews reported seeing federal agents deploying multiple rounds of pepper balls, flash bangs and tear gas to clear streets.
Portland’s police department said its officers did not see any crimes against people or property during Saturday’s demonstration and that they made no arrests and did not use munitions.
[In Chicago, two people were arrested for allegedly ramming fed vehicles. One US citizen woman in the car was armed, shot by CBP, drove herself to the hospital and taken into FBI custody upon her release.]
On Saturday, the White House announced the president had authorized 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to “protect federal officers and assets” in Chicago, a move Trump has been promising
for weeks.
“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” [Gov.] Pritzker said on X Saturday. “It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”
