PORTLAND, Ore. — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has again paused the Trump Administration’s plans to deploy National Guard troops to Portland. The Friday afternoon ruling stays a previous ruling by a three-judge panel while the court takes time to decide whether or not to rehear the case before the full court. The three-judge panel was made up of two Trump appointees and one Clinton appointee. The stay expires at 5 p.m. on October 28.
The ruling is yet another in a series of court decisions centered around deployment of troops from both Oregon and California to help quell “unrest” in the city. The administration has for several months used rhetoric to claim that Portland is “burning to the ground” and a “hell hole.” President Trump himself has made false claims that the downtown core of the city is entirely boarded up and that residents fear for their lives.
The reality is that small and mostly peaceful protests have centered around an ICE facility in the South Waterfront neighborhood. Those protests have been contained to one city block. On October 18, more than 40,000 people took to the streets to take part in a nationwide day of protests. That event, too, was peaceful.
Another Federal Court Judge, Karen Immergut, declined Friday to lift her earlier order barring deployment of National Guard troops from any state to Oregon.
