The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a 2-1 order that had sided with the Trump administration’s effort to federalize and deploy the Oregon National Guard in Portland, leaving in place a lower court’s restraining order blocking the deployment while the case continues.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy 300 California National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, calling it an unlawful effort to circumvent her earlier ruling that Oregon National Guard members could not be federalized or deployed.
The Trump administration is building out a national paramilitary policing force that could be used to intimidate people and consolidate power, but states have tools to resist this dangerous abuse of power and protect communities from intimidation.
The State of Oregon and the City of Portland filed suit to block President Donald Trump’s order to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard and send them into Portland, arguing that it is unlawful, unconstitutional, and a violation of both the Posse Comitatus Act and the Tenth Amendment.