Judge Blocks National Guard From Portland And Says Trump Overstepped

The judge issued an order last month temporarily blocking the deployment. A federal judge ruled on Friday that Donald Trump "exceeded the President's authority" when he sent federalized National Guard troops into Portland. In a 106-decision, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut made permanent an order she issued last month blocking the deployment into the city. "The evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon's governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building, exceeded the president's authority," the judge... After a three-day trial, Immergut rejected the Trump administration's argument that immigration-related protests amounted to rebellion or danger of a rebellion -- the standard needed to justify a federal takeover of the National Guard.

Updated on: November 7, 2025 / 10:16 PM EST / CBS/AP A federal judge on Friday issued a ruling "permanently" blocking the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. In late September, President Trump announced he would be deploying federal troops to Portland in response to downtown protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility over the administration's immigration crackdown. The Trump administration later placed 200 Oregon National Guard troops under federal control, and attempted to deploy another 200 federalized California National Guard troops in Portland as well. Mr.

Trump invoked Title 10 of the federal code in his deployment efforts, which allows for its use if the president deems that "there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority... The moves prompted a lawsuit from city and state officials in Portland, Oregon and California. People protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility as law enforcement officers walk out of the gates to guard vehicles leaving the facility on Oct. 11, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration failed to meet the legal requirements for deploying the National Guard to Portland after the city and state sued in... The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, followed a three-day trial last week in which both sides argued over whether protests at the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building met the conditions for using the military domestically under federal law. The administration said the troops were needed to protect federal personnel and property in a city that Trump described as “war ravaged” with “fires all over the place.”

In a 106-page opinion, Immergut found that even though the president is entitled to “great deference” in his decision on whether to call up the Guard, he did not have a legal basis for... A federal judge Friday issued a permanent injunction barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops from any state to Oregon, finding the president exceeded his authority. “Even giving great deference to the President’s determination, the President did not have a lawful basis to federalize the National Guard,” U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut ruled in a 106-page opinion. Immergut’s injunction follows a three-day trial she held last week and a brief, preliminary order she issued on Monday.

Friday’s injunction offers a much more detailed examination of the law and conditions in Portland leading up to Trump’s Sept. 27 authorization of Guard members to protect the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in the South Waterfront neighborhood amid nightly protests. She found that Trump failed to meet the two criteria he used to invoke federal code to mobilize the National Guard: there was no danger of a rebellion against U.S. government authority, Immergut ruled, and officers have not been thwarted from executing federal law. US District Judge Karin Immergut ruled Friday, November 7, that the Trump administration is permanently barred from deploying the National Guard to Oregon.

The decision was a long-awaited ruling in a case that catapulted Portland into the national spotlight. Immergut’s ruling is a permanent injunction against the U.S. Department of Defense and Secretary Pete Hegseth, as well as the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, banning them from carrying out recent plans to send troops to Portland. The ruling found that the federal government’s decision to briefly deploy unlawfully federalized troops to Oregon early last month violated US code and the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution. The ruling also found that “Oregon has suffered irreparable injury from the unlawful federalization and deployment of both its own National Guard and the National Guards of other states.” “Lastly, there are no adequate remedies available at law, and the balance of hardships and the public interest favor Plaintiffs,” the ruling states.

Immergut made it clear that the court’s ruling “does not rule that the President can never deploy the National Guard to Oregon, or to any other location, if conditions on the ground justify the... National Guard troops cannot be deployed in Portland and President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by attempting to do so, a federal judge ruled Nov. 7. In a 106-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut outlined the facts of the case and concluded the Trump administration had violated both the 10th Amendment and Title 10, Section 12406 of the U.S. Code.

"The evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building, exceeded the President’s authority," said Immergut,... The ruling comes after Immergut heard testimony during a three-day trial and issued a Nov. 2 preliminary injunction preventing troops from being deployed until 5 p.m. Nov. 7. The relevant portion of Title 10, Section 12406 of the U.S.

Code says the president can federalize troops when there is or is a threat of rebellion, or laws are unable to be executed using "regular forces." Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A federal judge issued a permanent injunction that prevents the deployment of the National Guard in Portland, Ore., saying Donald Trump "exceeded the President's authority." U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, in a 106-page decision Friday, wrote in all caps: "THIS PERMANENT INJUNCTION ORDER IS IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT." She issued a temporary restraining order on Oct.

4 blocking the deployment of the Oregon National Guard to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. One day later a second order blocked deployment of National Guard troops from other states to Portland streets. "The evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon's governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building, exceeded the president's authority," the judge,... Immergut, who made the decision after the three-day trial, said the troops were not needed to quell protests against Trump's immigration policies. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building is seen in Portland, Ore.

this month. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption 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. "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."

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