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.
The more they lose the worse it is for them, tbh. Even super conservative judges are allergic to this stuff.
That’s not to say they won’t try. But I do think they’re having a harder time than they imagined they would have. After all, this is the supreme court conservatives have spent decades trying to achieve, and they’re still getting stonewalled. If they can’t legal their way to supreme authority with this supreme court, I’m not sure I see a way for them to do it at all besides just straight up suspending habeus corpus and calling it a day.
Let’s not forget that at the end of the day, these are a group of some of the most cowardly, backbiting, smooth brained slobbering imbeciles the world has even seen. I am still pretty confident that they will fuck this up spectacularly.