{"id":276263,"date":"2025-10-04T04:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276263\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:24:22","slug":"federal-judge-weighs-starkly-different-views-of-portland-protests-in-hearing-on-national-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276263\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge weighs starkly different views of Portland protests in hearing on National Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mayor<\/p>\n

Mayor Keith Wilson leaves the federal courthouse in Portland, Ore., on Friday, Oct. 3. The state of Oregon and the city of Portland appeared in court Friday morning for a hearing on their motion to block President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard.<\/p>\n

Saskia Hatvany \/ OPB<\/p>\n

U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut heard arguments Friday over whether to issue a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump\u2019s deployment of the Oregon National Guard in Portland.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, Immergut noted she was aware she was required to give \u201cgreat deference\u201d to the president when it comes to federalizing troops. <\/p>\n

Related:<\/strong> Dueling narratives on Portland protests head to court in National Guard case<\/a><\/p>\n

She also questioned why the official order Trump used to federalize the Guard in California appeared to be the same one he used months later in Oregon, and she expressed skepticism when the Trump administration\u2019s attorneys pointed to the president\u2019s Truth Social post as evidence. <\/p>\n

\u201cReally? A social media post is going to count as a presidential determination that you can send the National Guard to cities? That\u2019s really what I should be relying on?\u201d Immergut said.<\/p>\n

Attorneys on either side of the case presented Immergut with starkly different pictures of the protests near the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.<\/p>\n

Eric Hamilton, an attorney with the U.S. Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division, argued that \u201cthe record does show a persistent threat.\u201d He cited reports from the Portland Police Bureau showing that September protest crowds were \u201cvery energized\u201d and included \u201cover 50 to 60\u201d clad in black bloc. <\/p>\n

Attorneys for the city and state relied on the same police documents, which also showed several nights of much smaller and subdued protests leading up to Trump\u2019s announcement to send in the Guard. <\/p>\n

They cited an email from the night before Trump\u2019s announcement in which the police observed 8-15 people at any given time: \u201cMostly sitting in lawn chairs and walking around,\u201d Portland police wrote. \u201cEnergy was low, minimal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton pointed to a ruling last month by a federal judge in California that found Trump\u2019s troop deployment there unlawful. Even though the administration disagreed with the ruling, Hamilton said the judge said \u201cfederal troops can continue to protect federal property in a manner consistent with the Posse Comitatus Act.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Act, passed in the wake of the Civil War, prohibits the military from domestic law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Attorneys for the city and state also argued a troop deployment could inflame the situation on the ground, causing irreparable harm.<\/p>\n

Immergut said she plans to issue her ruling late Friday or Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Keith Wilson leaves the federal courthouse in Portland, Ore., on Friday, Oct. 3. The state of Oregon…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[50,142830,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-276263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-portland-protest-politics","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115313997763759967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}