Federal judge prohibits Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland

Published by Oregon Public Broadcasting at 5:05 p.m. Pacific time.

Click here for the full text of the final order.

President Donald Trump was formally blocked from sending the National Guard to Portland by U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, who delivered her final order in the case Friday.

“Since that brief span of a few days in June, the protests outside the Portland ICE facility have been predominately peaceful, with only isolated and sporadic instances of relatively low-level violence, largely between protesters and counter-protesters,” the judge wrote in her 106-page order, “this Court concludes that even giving great deference to the President’s determination, the President did not have a lawful basis to federalize the National Guard.”

The permanent injunction went into effect immediately.

Thank you, Judge Immergut!