"This promise, at least, he has kept. Over the past four months, the president has sent the Guard into the streets of Los Angeles and the District of Columbia. Now Trump is pushing to do the same in Portland, Oregon (which he recently described as "a burning hellhole"), and Chicago ("probably worse than almost any other city in the world")."
"In a ruling last week barring Trump's deployment of the Oregon Guard into Portland, Judge Karin Immergut of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon wrote that the United States "has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs." Trump's arguments for deploying the Guard "risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power," the judge warned."
Donald Trump repeatedly sought to deploy National Guard troops into "crime dens" and against the "enemy within," and has sent Guard units into Los Angeles and the District of Columbia. He is now pushing similar deployments in Portland and Chicago, using inflammatory language to describe those cities. A federal judge barred an Oregon deployment, citing a longstanding tradition of resistance to military intrusion into civil affairs and warning that such moves risk blurring civil and military federal power. State leaders warned that these deployments aim to justify and normalize armed soldiers under direct presidential command and erode norms against domestic military use.
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