Trump wants to use the military to battle crime in US cities, but first, he has to battle judges– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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‘WHY IS THIS APPROPRIATE?’: A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term was aghast when she found out on Sunday that Trump was circumventing her orders not to deploy federalized troops to Portland, a city Trump said is “burning to the ground,” a claim the judge dismissed as “untethered to the facts.”
The Trump administration sought to sidestep the judge’s temporary restraining order against mobilizing the Oregon National Guard against the wishes of the state’s governor by sending in troops already under federal control in California. Both states went back to court and won a second TRO.
“How could bringing in federalized National Guard from California not be in direct contravention to the temporary restraining order I issued yesterday?” U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut said during a hastily called evening telephone hearing last night, as reported by the Associated Press. “Aren’t defendants simply circumventing my order?” she said later. “Why is this appropriate?”
“Small protests have been going on outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility since Trump’s second term began in January. There have been occasional flare-ups, including in June, but for weeks nightly demonstrations attracted only a few dozen people,” the AP reported. “Local officials have pointed out that the protest occupies one city block far from the downtown in a city that covers 145 square miles. They also say many of his claims and social media posts appear to rely on images from 2020, when unrest that grew out of the Black Lives Matter protests roiled the city for several months.”