{"id":476788,"date":"2025-10-05T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476788\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T22:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:20:11","slug":"newsom-to-sue-trump-as-pentagon-sends-california-national-guard-to-oregon-gavin-newsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476788\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom to sue Trump as Pentagon sends California national guard to Oregon | Gavin Newsom"},"content":{"rendered":"

California<\/a>\u2019s governor, Gavin Newsom<\/a>, announced on Sunday that he is suing<\/a> Donald Trump<\/a> over the deployment of 300 California national guard personnel to Oregon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are on their way there now,\u201d Newsom said in a press statement. \u201cThe Trump Administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself and putting into action their dangerous words \u2013 ignoring court orders and treating judges, even those appointed by the President himself, as political opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pentagon confirmed the deployment later on Sunday. \u201cAt the direction of the President, approximately 200 federalized members of the California<\/a> National Guard are being reassigned from duty in the greater Los Angeles area to Portland, Oregon to support US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal personnel performing official duties, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property,\u201d Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Newsom\u2019s proposed lawsuit follows a federal judge\u2019s ruling that blocked<\/a> the Trump administration from deploying the Oregon national guard to Portland<\/a>. US district judge Karin Immergut agreed with arguments it would inflame rather than calm tensions in the city.<\/p>\n

Immergut said in her ruling, which delays sending the guard until at least 18 October, that there was a lack of evidence that the recent protests in Portland justified the move<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Caroline Turco, Portland\u2019s senior deputy attorney, said that there had been no violence against Ice officers for months and that recent Ice protests were \u201csedate\u201d in the week before the president declared the city to be a war zone<\/a>, sometimes featuring fewer than a dozen protesters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t about public safety, it\u2019s about power,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cWe will take this fight to court, but the public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement on X, Oregon<\/a> attorney general Dan Rayfield said the state is \u201cquickly assessing our options and preparing to take legal action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President is obviously hellbent on deploying the military in American cities, absent facts or authority to do so,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt is up to us and the courts to hold him accountable. That\u2019s what we intend to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The California national guard referred questions to the defense department. A department spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump exercised his lawful authority to protect federal assets and personnel in Portland<\/a> following violent riots and attacks on law enforcement. For once, Gavin Newscum should stand on the side of law-abiding citizens instead of violent criminals destroying Portland and cities across the country,\u201d read a response from the White House deputy press secretary, Abigail Jackson.<\/p>\n

The news from Oregon came just a day<\/a> after Trump authorized the deployment of national guard troops to Chicago, the latest in a string<\/a> of similar<\/a> interventions<\/a> across several US states.<\/p>\n

Trump had first announced the plan on 27 September, saying he was \u201cauthorizing full force, if necessary\u201d despite pleas from Oregon officials and the state\u2019s congressional delegation, who said there had been a single, uneventful protest outside one federal immigration enforcement office.<\/p>\n

For years<\/a>, Trump has amplified the narrative<\/a> that Portland is a \u201cwar-ravaged\u201d city with anarchists engaging in chaos and unlawful behavior.<\/p>\n

During his first term in 2020, he deployed federal forces to the city amid the protests over the murder by police of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The protests spread across the US but were especially heightened in Portland. Despite protests against Ice being relatively small in the state this year, Trump has used them as a justification to deploy troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on X<\/a> about the latest move from Trump, Newsom said: \u201cIt\u2019s appalling. It\u2019s un-American, and it must be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California\u2019s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced on Sunday that he is suing Donald Trump over the deployment of 300…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-476788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115323890838266113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}