Trump administration The last bet Send the military to Democratic city He entered the legal wall on weekends, as city and government officials in Portland, Oregon, filed a lawsuit for blocking What they called the “clearly illegal” deployment of troops.
Filed on Sunday, the lawsuit aims a note from the Minister of Defense Pete Hegset This is called 200 members of the National Guard of Oregon in the Federal Service.
The order followed President Donald Trump True, a social explosionSaying Highset “Provide all the necessary troops to protect the war, ruined by Portland, and any of our preferential objects under the siege from the attack of Antifa and other internal terrorists”, adding that he “allows complete strength, if necessary”.
Portland was a long -standing panmic bag of Trump, which He called it “Disorder”, “hellish hole” and – in his 2025 The first address– The place “where they kill people and destroy the city.” With his long The story of protestIN significant LGBTK+ communityAnd Laws limit Police cooperation with federal immigration support, the city has become a reduction in Trump for everything that, according to him, is not so with liberal America.
The White House insists that the deployment is legal.
“President Trump uses his legitimate powers to send the National Guard to protect federal assets and personnel in Portland after months of forcible riots, when officials were attacked and impressive NBC News saidField
The Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that the National Guard will be federal for 60 days to protect the immigration and customs officers and other government officials.
“The president called on these 200 guards to maintain rampant lawlessness in Portland and allow federal law enforcement officers to safely fulfill their duties,” he said.
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But state and city officials are asked to be different.
Their complaint calls Trump's statements “nothing more than unreasonable, wildly hyperbolic pretext” and claims that the federal government is “violated by the sovereign power of Oregon to manage its own law enforcement and the resource of the National Guard”.
The suit also refers to May be accompanied by an actWhich does not allow the president to use the military for domestic law enforcement agencies. Federal judge quoted the same law Earlier this month, in the decision that the administration violated the law by deploying troops in Los -Angels. Officials also claim that deployment violates The tenth amendmentWhich means police force for the States.
The city insists that the protests near the ice plant were “small”, and that crime Essentially unchanged Since last year, homicides and attacks under aggravating circumstances decreased, although minor attacks have decreased a little.
“Characterization of President Portland as“ destroyed by the war ”is pure fiction, lawyers of the state and city wroteField
Democratic Governor Tina Kotek from Oregon Launched Trump's deployment On Sunday, saying that the state “does not want military troops” and that public security should be processed at the local level.
She added that officials have no idea how many troops will be deployed, whether they will be armed or when they arrive – Trump effectively seized control of the Navigon National Guard.
In the lawsuit, he asks the district judge of the United States Michael Simon, appointed in Obama, block deployment. Officials also submitted to A temporary prohibitive order On Monday, calling the order “anxious invasion” to state sovereignty and a warning that it threatens the “main structure of American federalism”.
But this is not an isolated trick.
Trump threatened Similar actions In other cities controlled by democrats, such as Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans, and He Expanded troops To Washington in August. Earlier this month, he Created a target group To mobilize the troops in Memphis, which was supported by the Republican governor Bill Lee Lee Lee.
For officials Portland, Portland Trump is just a politician dressed as a crisis. The lawyers of the city noted that local law enforcement agencies were able to manage protests near the ice plant without military intervention.
“[They] In no way represent an uprising or the danger of an uprising, ”they wrote.
Portland is only the last city of the Democratic Party, which receives the handling of Trump – as lawless and chaotic, presumably, needs a federal strike in the name of “public security”.
