Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on Tuesday that guard members, as they have in other deployments in large cities, will be tasked with supporting federal law enforcement partners, including the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. Parnell added that the national guard troops will be deployed through February. Louisiana's governor, Jeff Landry, a Republican, praised Donald Trump and the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, for coordinating the deployment and predicted the guard's presence would have a positive impact.
This afternoon, blocks from the White House, a man sneaked up on two West Virginia National Guardsmen and shot them in the head with a handgun. Both soldiers are reportedly in critical condition. A motive has not been determined, but a recent Afghan immigrant named Rahmanullah Lakanwal is in custody, according to CBS News. Early photos of the suspect show a burly, bearded man being wheeled almost naked into an ambulance.
The White House's Rapid Response 47 account on X lambasted New Yorker writer Jane Mayer as a sick, disgusting ghoul after she said the National Guard should never have been deployed to Washington, D.C. Mayer's comment, made in her own X post, was made about an hour after two National Guardsmen were shot in the nation's capital. FBI Director Kash Patel, while speaking to the press around 4:50 p.m., said the two troops were in critical condition.
A United States federal judge has said the Trump administration must pause its deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, DC, a setback for the president's push to send the military into cities across the country. US District Judge Jia Cobb temporarily suspended the deployment in a ruling on Thursday, responding to a lawsuit filed by city officials who said Trump had usurped policing powers and was using the military for domestic law enforcement.
A state court in Nashville on Monday heard a legal challenge by some Democratic elected officials to Donald Trump's deployment of the national guard into the streets of Memphis, notable in part because of who has not raised an objection: the city of Memphis itself. Shelby county mayor Lee Harris led the lawsuit, along with state representatives Gabby Salinas and GA Hardaway, both Memphis Democrats. Other state and local leaders joined the suit, including one Memphis city council member.
During the trial, the parties introduced over 750 exhibits, many of which are voluminous. This Court heard the trial testimony and arguments of counsel and has been in the process of diligently reviewing all the evidence. The interest of justice requires that this Court complete a thorough review of the exhibits and trial transcripts before issuing a final decision on the merits,
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.
On Wednesday, October 15, US District Judge Karin Immergut extended the temporary restraining order (TRO) she'd granted on October 5 for another two weeks. The TRO was set to expire October 18. The ruling comes as the state of Oregon is tangled up in a lawsuit against the federal government for President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops, to help guard the Portland ICE facility amid protests there. Oregon attorneys say the deployment is unnecessary and violates the US Constitution.
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 judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the deployment of the national guard in Chicago in a much-anticipated ruling about efforts by the Trump administration to use troops to help enforce immigration policy and also battle what it says are high crime rates. During arguments about the case, lawyers for the state of Illinois had called the sending of national guard soldiers to the city which was opposed by Chicago and state political leaders a constitutional crisis.
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.
On Sunday, the U.S. District Court of Oregon ruled that the deployment likely violated federal law, as the protests were not significantly violent or disruptive. The coalition, which includes major cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore, argues that the federal government overstepped its authority. They contend there was no legal justification for the deployment, which occurred despite local officials' objections.
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.
