Appeals Court Blocks Deployment; Oregon TRO Extended

A federal appeals court in Chicago refused the Trump administration’s request to pause a district judge’s order that had blocked President Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago to protect ICE agents, leaving the troops federalized but barred from being sent to the site. In Oregon, U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut extended two temporary restraining orders for 14 days that prevent the federal government from federalizing and deploying Oregon and other states’ National Guard troops to Portland to guard the ICE field office, finding no legal justification and warning of harm to state sovereignty. Immergut scheduled an expedited three-day trial to determine whether the administration met the criteria in Title 10, Section 12406 and whether the deployment violates the Tenth Amendment, while the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reviews the government’s appeal. The disputes come amid near-daily protests outside ICE facilities and broader federal efforts to federalize troops for deployments to Democratic-led cities. Until the appeals courts rule, the challenged National Guard mobilizations remain constrained and cannot be sent to the contested sites.