The federal appointed Trump Judge satisfied Portland's request for temporary protection against the inevitable occupation of the National Guard on Saturday evening.
Judge Karin Immort wrote that some of the arguments of the Trump administration risk violating the main prerequisite, that the United States is the country of “constitutional law, not martial law.”
“The defendants put forward a number of arguments, which, if they are accepted, risks the line between the civil and military federal government – to the damage of this nation,” she wrote.
The Trump administration immediately appealed the decision in the 9th District Court of Appeal.
Immergut on Friday seemed balanced To provide a temporary prohibitive order, since the administration lawyers fought a lot during oral arguments to point out recent riots in Portland, which justify the deployment.
“As of September 27, 2025, months have passed since Portland was observed some kind of stable level of violent or destructive protest activity,” she wrote.
She added that law enforcement agencies managed what sporadic episodes were outside the ice institution, which was a place of larger protests in early summer. She also rejected the arguments of the administration that violence in other places – lawyers of the Ministry of Justice quoted the murder of detained ice in Dallas – in particular, increased the risk of violence in Portland.
The argument of the Ministry of Justice that the accidental use of Portland of other types of federal troops as a backup showed that local law enforcement agencies could not cope with the same way, did not go through the failure: “If the President could equate federal resources to its inability to fulfill the federal law, the president could send military troops to any place at any time,” she said.
She also wrote that President Trump's own words damaged his cause, since his hyperbolic descriptions of Portland as destroyed by the war and burning showed that his “determination was simply not distracted by facts.”
On the same day, when the immort made its decision, Trump announced that he would deploy 300 troops of the National Guard in Chicago. This occupation opposes Governor Illinois J. B. Pritskker (D), who called the deployment of “outrageous and non -American”, and will also probably meet legal problems.
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