Discussion
A federal trial in #Portland about Trump’s authority to deploy the #NationalGuard to the city got off with a stunning revelation: Troops briefly deployed to a federal #immigration building in South Portland this month, appearing to defy a #CourtOrder issued hours earlier blocking their deployment.
Emails summarizing the federal response say 9 members of the #Oregon Guard were sent to the #ICE facility in Portland & concluded their shift in the early hours of Oct. 5.
A federal trial in #Portland about Trump’s authority to deploy the #NationalGuard to the city got off with a stunning revelation: Troops briefly deployed to a federal #immigration building in South Portland this month, appearing to defy a #CourtOrder issued hours earlier blocking their deployment.
Emails summarizing the federal response say 9 members of the #Oregon Guard were sent to the #ICE facility in Portland & concluded their shift in the early hours of Oct. 5.
Those emails were submitted to the court as a trial exhibit.
“At 11:35 PDT today, a force of nine MPs arrived at the ICE facility in downtown Portland, Oregon where they assumed their first support mission,” wrote Col. Jeff Merenkov at 3:28 p.m. on Oct. 4.
The email included a schedule that showed the troops’ “shift conclusion” was set for midnight.
#Trump #law #judiciary #immigration #RightToProtest #Portland #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct
Jean Lin, special counsel for the #DOJ, confirmed the deployment to the US District Court Judge Karin Immergut on Wednesday but provided few specifics — minutes before the trial began.
Immergut issued a restraining order at 3:40PM on Oct 4, barring #Trump from federalizing the #Oregon #NationalGuard & blocking their deployment. Later, on Oct 5, she issued another order temporarily blocking Guard members from anywhere in the country from deploying to Oregon.
“We’ll talk later about whether that’s #contempt,” the judge responded to Lin Wednesday.
For the next 3 days, Immergut will preside over a trial that’s expected to touch on a range of issues, from lofty legal arguments about the authority & limitations of presidential powers, to specific ways the #Portland Police Bureau has evolved its response to #protests since 2020, & rising tensions between local & #federal law enforcement officers.
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
