"has banned the president's deployment of National Guard units to Portland on the grounds that the president's claim that Portland is a "burning hellhole" besieged by violent anarchists is "untethered to facts.""
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was apparent to everyone that protests in a one-block area of Portland surrounding an ICE facility represented a "radical left reign of terror.""
""Today's judicial ruling is one of the most egregious and thunderous violations of constitutional order we have ever seen - and is yet the latest example of unceasing efforts to nullify the 2024 election by fiat," he said."
"But Miller doesn't simply condemn Immergut's ruling; he calls it a "legal insurrection" aimed at facilitating an "organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers.""
Nine months into the second Donald Trump administration, legal and political conflicts hinge on presidential claims of extraordinary executive powers needed to confront alleged national emergencies. The president asserts exclusive authority to determine when catastrophic conditions exist and treats resistance to his directives as an additional emergency justifying further unilateral power. A federal judge barred deployment of National Guard units to Portland after finding the president's description of the city as a "burning hellhole" besieged by violent anarchists to be "untethered to facts." White House officials responded with incendiary language, labeling the ruling a "legal insurrection" and alleging efforts to nullify the 2024 election.
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