A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, issuing a late-night ruling on Sunday that temporarily halts the move.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, determined that the deployment was unlawful and unconstitutional, granting an emergency temporary restraining order to prevent the use of California National Guard troops in Oregon. The order also prohibits the deployment of troops from other states or from Washington, D.C. into Oregon.
In her decision, Immergut wrote that the Trump administration’s directive violated federal statute 10 U.S.C. §12406 as well as the Tenth Amendment, which reserves certain powers to the states.
Immergut wrote that Oregon and the city of Portland “are likely to succeed on their claim that the President exceeded his constitutional authority and violated the Tenth Amendment.”
