October 20, 2025

Federal appeals court lets Trump deploy the National Guard to Portland

Wall Street Journal -  State and local officials had objected to the deployment, saying that no emergency exists to justify the federal show of force and that local police have handled protests and crowd control appropriately. The decision lifted a temporary order that had stopped the dispatch of state Guard members in response to demonstrations. The unsigned order said that the sporadic violence at protests before an ICE facility was sufficient to trigger the president’s power to federalize the Guard.

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