Federal agents, including members of the Ministry of Homeland, the border police and the police, will try to hold back demonstrators in the city center on October 4, 2025 in Portland, Oregon, before a establishment of the US immigration and customs authority. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Washington – The White House criticized a federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump on Monday because he blocked the posting of the National Guard troops to Oregon, while the hostility between the government and democratic states, in which Trump has started, escalated troops because of the objections of the governors.
The Press spokeswoman of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said the Trump administration was within the legal limits and will appeal to the decision of the district court, which she described as “regardless of reality and law”.
“The President uses his authority as a commander-in-chief, US code 12406, who clearly states that the president has the right to convene the National Guard in cases in which he considers this to be appropriate,” said Leavitt at the press conference and referred to a section in title 10 of the US codes authorized In the event of an invasion or rebellion, the president should send the national guard.
Leavitt said reporters that an institution of the US immigration and customs authority (ICE) in Portland, in which there were night protests, was “besieged” by “anarchists”.
“They do not respect the law enforcement authorities and call for violence,” said Leavitt.
Mainstream media reports and statements of local civil servants have contradicted this claim.
“There is no need for a military intervention in Oregon. There is no uprising in Portland. No threat to national security,” said Democrat Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, on Sunday in an explanation.
According to local media, federal agents used tear gas and pepper balls against non -violent demonstrators on Saturday evening Report.
Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker also submitted Submit a lawsuit against the administration on Monday morning. A federal judge has set a hearing for Thursday. Illinois and Chicago applied for an injunction to prevent Trump and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth from sending Texas Guard troops and the Illinois Guard to the third largest city in the country.
Trump teases the insurrection act
On Monday afternoon, Trump expressed the opportunity to refer to the Insurrection Act of 1807, an instrument for the expansion of the president’s legal powers for the use of military personnel on domestic law enforcement.
When asked by a reporter in the Oval Office, under which conditions he would rely on the law, Trump, “if necessary”, replied that he could use it to oppose courts or state officials.
“So far it wasn’t necessary,” he said. “But we have an uprising law for a certain reason. If I would have to issue it, I would do so. If people were killed and stopped us or stops us governors or mayors, I would of course do it. I would like to make sure that no people are killed. We have to make sure that our cities are safe.”
Court dispute in Portland
In Oregon Federal District judge Karin Immergut expanded your order On Sunday evening, the Trump government was prohibited from sending troops from the National Guard to Portland.
The edict came after Trump and Hegseth had opposed you injunction The fact that Idergut prevented the Oregon National Guard troops on Saturday from sending there.
Immergut was nominated by Trump in 2019 and confirmed by the US Senate by voting.
The government claims that the guard is needed to protect federal agents because 2 miles south of the town hall occurs in front of an ICE system. Kotek rejected Trump’s claims that the city was “on flames” and said that the local authorities were equipped for coping with the demonstrations that have been reaching from one to the next year Dozen or something People About 100.
Trump ordered 101 troops from the California National Guard to Portland overnight, without the knowledge of Kotek, she said said Sunday. The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, a compatriot of the Democrats, confirmed that Trump sent up to 300 soldiers from the national guard of his state to Oregon.
Shortly before Evergut’s urgency hearing on Sunday evening, a deputy attorney in General from Oregon submitted a lawsuit memo The court showed that Hegseth had ordered 400 troops from the Texas National Guard to Portland and Chicago.
California joined Oregon and Portland and sued the government.
“A militarization in Germany”
Pritzker said that he had asked the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, “to withdraw his support for this decision immediately and to refuse the use of members of the Texas National Guard in this way”.
“Let me make it clear that Donald Trump uses our military members as a political support and, as chess figures in his illegal attempt to militarize the cities of our country,” said Pritzker at a press conference on Monday afternoon.
The Attorney General of Illinois, Kwame Raoul, said that the mission was “unfair to the national guards, he is unfair to the local law enforcement agencies and he is certainly unfair to the law -loving citizens of Illinois who do not want to be exposed to a military occupation.”
In Chicago, the immigration authority has been going on nationwide for almost a month. Dozens of federal agents searched a residential building in the South Shore district on September 30th, captivated adults and children and arrested some US citizens To several media Report. The US Department of Homeland Protection published A highly produced video of raid on social media.
Trump’s federalization and the use of troops of the National Guard in predominantly democratic states alerted political and constitutional experts.
Pat Eddington, Senior Fellow for home and civil rights at the libertarian Cato Institute, said he agreed with Pritzker’s concerns.
“I am 100 % convinced that the use of the American military and all this massive use of ICE and HSI and FBI and Marshals and the rest for the alleged enforcement of immigration provisions and the alleged combination of crime in reality serve to lay the foundation for the normalization of militarization, essentially a domestic militarization of the bourgeois life,” said Eddington ended September in an interview with the States Newsroom.
In a press conference on Monday afternoon, Hima Shansi, head of the National Safety Program of the American Civil Liberties Union, said that Trump’s use of military and federal police in the past few months “seriously constitutional concerns with regard to federalism, the separation of powers between the Federal Government and the States, which in general police violence, is raising”.
“What this means in the language of real people is that the states, as they have said, are fully able to do their tasks as needed, and there is absolutely no reason for the president to enforce the federal power in the way he does it.”
Start in Los Angeles
In response to the protests there against the aggressive enforcement of the immigration regulations, Trump sent troops from the California National Guard in June and sent US marines to Los Angeles.
Newsom made an objection to the plan and complained to stop the operation. A federal judge initially put himself on the side of the democratic governor and blocked the commitment, but an appellant raised the decision.
The first instance court again decided in September that Trump had crossed the border between armed forces and law enforcement authorities. The administration has appealed.
During this case in California, Trump also instructed the National Guard of the District of Columbia to support the local police in the country’s capital. Since the district is a federal territory, it is relatively clear that the parade of the president’s legal authority was, even if many Trump critics questioned its necessity.
In a more legally questionable step, troops from the National Guard were also sent to the district of several Republican states.
Trump also ordered Tennessee National Guard troops to Memphis last monthWith the consent of the state’s republican governor.
Ashley Murray reported from Washington, DC. Jacob Fischler reported from Portland, Oregon.
