A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday barred President Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, until at least Friday, saying she “found no credible evidence” that protests in the city grew out of control before the president federalized the troops earlier this fall.
The city and state sued in September to block the deployment.
It’s the latest development in weeks of legal back-and-forth in Portland, Chicago and other U.S. cities as the Trump administration has moved to federalize and deploy the National Guard in city streets to quell protests.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, an appointee of Mr. Trump, followed a three-day trial 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.
I went to a No Kings protest a few weeks ago, and hopefully you all did too. It’s much harder to pretend cities are at war when you have a few thousand silly geese dancing around in costume with protest signs, and those images and videos do serve to provide a basis for the judiciary to fight back.
Also, may the fascists of the USA and elsewhere continue to be involuntarily celibate in perpetuity.