"A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, ruling Saturday in a lawsuit brought by the state and city. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, issued the order pending further arguments in the suit. She said the relatively small protests the city has seen did not justify the use of federalized forces and allowing the deployment could harm Oregon's state sovereignty."
""This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs," Immergut wrote. She later continued, "This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law." The Trump administration late Saturday filed a notice of appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals."
A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland while a lawsuit by the state and city proceeds. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, appointed by Trump, issued the order pending further arguments and found that relatively small protests did not justify federalized forces. The judge wrote that military intrusion into civil affairs threatens state sovereignty and invoked a tradition of resistance to government overreach, stating the nation is governed by Constitutional law, not martial law. The Trump administration filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit after federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard troops to protect federal buildings.
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