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DOJ Admits National Guard Was Briefly Sent to Portland Despite Court Order

  • A three-day trial in Portland will examine whether President Donald Trump lawfully deployed the National Guard, with U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut presiding Wednesday.
  • Deploying 200 Guard members followed the president's late-September social media declaration, and on September 28 President Donald Trump federalized 200 Oregon National Guard members to protect the ICE facility, South Waterfront.
  • Portland police Commander Franz Schoening testified federal officers used tear gas, pepper balls, and other munitions disproportionally on Oct. 4 and Oct. 18; Spencer D. Schaaf was struck about 100 feet from the Portland ICE building.
  • The city of Portland and the Oregon Department of Justice sued to block the deployment, and U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut temporarily barred federal deployment earlier this month after Guard troops remained at the Portland ICE facility on Oct. 4.
  • A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rehearing vote among 29 active judges is pending, and California called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Oct. 16 memo extending federalization through Feb. 2 an unprecedented attack on sovereignty.
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A U.S. appeals court temporarily blocked the deployment of National Guard troops by President Donald Trump in Portland, Oregon. The decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the ruling of a panel of three judges who concluded that Trump can deploy troops to the city, ruled by Democrats. The move is part of the Republican president’s strategy to send troops to cities ruled by his political rivals, who are accused of being plagued b…

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After a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in San Francisco recently allowed US President Donald Trump to deploy troops to Portland, the full San Francisco appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the case will be heard by an expanded 11-judge panel, temporarily blocking the deployment again.

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The Washington Post broke the news in on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
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