Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's National Guard deployment to Portland
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A federal judge in Portland, Ore. temporarily blocked President Trump from federalizing 200 members of the state's National Guard.
U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut ruled that the government didn't meet the threshold for declaring recent ongoing protests outside an ICE facility in Portland a rebellion. She noted in her ruling that the Portland Police Bureau's 812 officers are trained in crowd management and First Amendment law. She also noted their mutual aid agreements with neighboring law enforcement agencies, as well as with the Oregon State Police and federal law enforcement, signaling that they had protests well in hand.
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"If additional resources beyond all of these are critically needed, PPB may request that Oregon's Governor provide National Guard resources for a locally declared emergency," she wrote.
Since July, the judge's ruling said, the protests generally were limited to fewer than 30 people and were "largely sedate."
The ruling stated the Trump administration "presented evidence of sporadic violence against federal officers and property damage to a federal building." Immergut wrote that the government has not, however, offered any evidence demonstr
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