NYT (“Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore.“):
A federal judge on Saturday blocked the Trump administration from using Oregon National Guard soldiers in response to nightly protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Ore.
Judge Karin Immergut, of the U.S. District Court in Oregon, sided with Democrats who run the state government when she issued a temporary restraining order blocking the mobilization. President Trump and the Defense Department had ordered 200 Oregon soldiers for a 60-day deployment.
In her ruling, Judge Immergut wrote that she expected a trial court to agree with the state’s contention that the president exceeded his constitutional authority in mobilizing federal troops for local work and likely violated the 10th Amendment.
Obviously, Immergut is a radical left lunatic, right? Well, she was nominated to the court by Donald J. Trump in January of 2019. Oh, and she was an associate independent counsel under Kenneth Starr during the 1998 investigations of President Clinton. She did get her law degree from Berkeley, however.
In the order released Saturday evening, Judge Immergut wrote that the president’s argument about the need for mobilization was contradicted by evidence that recent protests had been comparatively quiet and nonviolent, supporting the state’s case that the decision to use troops “was not ‘conceived in good faith.’”
It’s certainly possible that the Supreme Court will overrule this on the shadow docket. There is precedent for that.
