Judge Blocks Federal Guard Deployments, States Sue

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut twice blocked the federal government from federalizing and deploying National Guard troops to Portland, expanding a temporary restraining order to bar relocation or deployment of Guard members from any state to Oregon and concluding the administration’s determination was not made in good faith. The administration had attempted to use California and Texas troops to circumvent the first order. Illinois and the city of Chicago sued the Trump administration, alleging planned federalization and the deployment of roughly 300 Illinois and 400 Texas Guard members to Chicago violated the Posse Comitatus Act and the Tenth Amendment; Gov. J.B. Pritzker called the move an "invasion." White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller denounced the ruling as a "legal insurrection," arguing courts lack authority to restrict presidential troop deployments. The disputes have prompted multiple legal challenges and courtroom victories for states and raised broader constitutional questions over the limits of presidential authority to deploy military forces domestically.