Here We Go Again: Oregon Judge Says President Trump Can’t Use National Guard at ICE Because… Trump

An Oregon federal judge ruled Friday that Antifa’s nightly attacks on Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters weren’t dangerous or rebellious enough to warrant protecting the building with local or any other state’s National Guard soldiers. Judge Karin Immergut placed a “PERMANENT INJUNCTION” on placing the federalized soldiers there, because she wasn’t convinced things were bad enough to use them. 

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Immergut, whom President Trump (45) nominated to the bench, basically said in her 106-page disquisition that things weren’t insurrection-y enough, after nearly six months of attacks, to call out the Guard, even though she lives there. She didn’t find the concerns of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, President Trump, or Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth particularly persuasive, either.

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