"President Donald Trump's adventures in authoritarianism have taken a turn for the ominous in recent days as he's tried to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, and Chicago painting the cities as dangerous Democrat-run hellholes where ICE agents can't grab people off the street without a protest breaking out. The pushback has been fierce. A Trump-appointed federal judge, Karin Immergut, has twice temporarily blocked the deployment to Portland and questioned Trump's reasoning."
"Trump and his top advisers have only escalated in response, with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller accusing Immergut of "legal insurrection" and Trump once again suggesting he'll invoke the Insurrection Act to get around the courts. On Wednesday, Trump said in a Truth Social post that Pritzker and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson "should be in jail for failing to protect [ICE] Officers!""
"[T]he federal government is trying to use dubious factual claims about what's true on the ground in these cities to justify federalizing National Guard troops both from within those states and from outside of them. That is what we, and more important the courts, face: a factual dispute more than a legal one. Typically, our constitutional system resolves these kinds of factual disputes through litigation."
President Donald Trump sought to deploy National Guard troops to Portland and Chicago, portraying both cities as dangerous Democrat-run areas where ICE cannot operate without protest. A Trump-appointed federal judge, Karin Immergut, twice temporarily blocked the Portland deployment and questioned the factual basis for the moves. Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson strongly opposed the deployments, with Pritzker calling the actions an attempted invasion and vowing to protect residents. White House aides attacked the judge, and Trump suggested invoking the Insurrection Act while accusing local leaders of failing to protect ICE officers. Courts face disputed factual claims used to justify federalizing troops, and litigation remains the conventional means to resolve such disputes.
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