#national-guard-deployment

#national-guard-deployment

Oooooooh, it was a VERY embarrassing start for the feds in the trial that could decide whether or not the National Guard can be deployed to Portland. A U.S. Department of Justice attorney admitted yesterday in front of Judge Karin Immergut that Oregon National Guard troops were in attendance at Portland's ICE facility on October 4-despite the fact that Immergut had approved a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the soldiers being there mere hours before.

The Supreme Court is set to rule for the first time on whether the president has the power to deploy troops in American cities over the objections of local and state officials. A decision could come at any time. And even one-line order siding with Trump would send the message that the president is free to use the military to carry out his orders - and in particular, in Democratic-controlled cities and states.

President Donald Trump this week appeared to double down on sending the National Guard to San Francisco. But could that mean troop deployments to other parts of the Bay Area? Officials across the region, including in San Jose, Oakland, Concord and Berkeley, said they've received no indication of the military's imminent arrival in their jurisdictions. As Trump mobilizes troops to Democratic cities across the country in what he says is an effort to fight crime,

The 9th Circuit ruling paves the way for the federal government to occupy the city. The ruling, handed down more than a week after the court heard oral arguments from attorneys for the Department of Justice and the state of Oregon, is a legal success for the Trump administration, after courts have blocked or slowed its efforts to occupy other major cities like Los Angeles and Chicago.

His latest assertion that he was going to come to San Francisco. On what basis? He didn't even claim, there's no pretext anymore. Let's disabuse ourselves that there has to be a pretext with Donald Trump, that there's anything that would justify that there's no existing protest in a federal building, there's no operation that's being impeded. I guess it's just a training ground for the president of the United States. It is grossly illegal. It's immoral. It's rather delusional.

The law Trump has cited to activate National Guard troops is not the Insurrection Act - though he has openly contemplated it - but rather an emergency statute titled Section 12406. (Not every statute gets a memorably ominous moniker.) That law permits the president to deploy the Guard, even over the objection of a state governor, in cases of rebellion or foreign invasion, or when "the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States."

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the decision told the Associated Press on Wednesday. The friendly match was supposed to be played on 13 October at Soldier Field in Chicago but will be moved to Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, the home stadium of Argentina and Inter Miami star Lionel Messi.

When I watch television last night, and I'm watching the news and I see that nine people were killed in Chicago and 54 were badly wounded with bullets, I say, That's not our country. We have to do something,' Trump said in early September.

They want the Guard to come in. Or, they don't care who comes in. They just wanna be safe. And they really don't care. There was one woman, she was great today. She said. You know what? I don't care if it's the National Guard, the Army, the Marines, the Air Force, I don't care who comes in, as long as we're safe. And that's the way most of the public feels.

Illinois state Attorney General Kwame Raoul accused President Donald Trump of using US troops "to punish his political enemies."

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Calling the president's action a "breathtaking abuse of power," Newsom said in a statement that 300 California National Guard personnel were being deployed to Portland, Ore., a city the president has called "war-ravaged." "They are on their way there now," Newsom said of the National Guard. "This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power." Trump's move came a day after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked the federalization of Oregon's National Guard.

This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law, Judge Immergut wrote in a blistering ruling which rejected the Trump administration's claims of a War ravaged Portland. She added that that the Trump administration's arguments in the case risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power to the detriment of this nation. Further, the judge added, this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs.