What to know about Trump’s national guard deployment, from rulings to protests | Trump administration

A federal judge refused on Monday to immediately block the Trump administration to deploy national guard troops in Chicago, Illinois, after the state became the last to try to use the courts to prevent Donald Trump from sending to the army.

The decision was the most recent turning point in a whirlwind of three days of legal developments on Trump’s efforts to send federal troops to cities led by Democrats.

Here is what you need to know about the fight against the deployment by Trump of the National Guard.

Decisions

The first major decision came on Saturday, when the American district judge Karin Immergut, in a case carried by the state of Oregon, prevented the Trump administration from mobilizing 200 troops of the Oregon National Guard in Portland, where the demonstrators gathered in the block surrounding an American immigration and customs building (ICE) in recent weeks.

On Sunday evening, in a decision, Immergut also granted a temporary prohibition order sought by California and Oregon, and prohibited the Trump administration from sending the national guard troops to Portland. .

The decision occurred a few hours after Trump’s administration announced its intention to send hundreds of members of the California National Guard and Texas to the State.

California Governor Gavin Newsom described the decision as an important victory. “The rule of law has prevailed – and the California National Guard will soon return home,” Newsom said in a statement. “This decision is more than a legal victory, it is a victory for American democracy itself. Donald Trump tried to transform our soldiers into instruments of his political will, and while our fight continues, this evening, the rule of law said” hell no “.”

IMMERGUT, who was appointed by Trump in his first mandate, seemed incredulous that the president moved to call the troops of the National Guard in Oregon of California and Texas, just hours after having governed the first time.

“How could the Federalized National Guard of California come to be directly in violation of the temporary prohibition order that I made yesterday?” She questioned the lawyer for the federal government, cutting him.

“Do the defendants not simply bypass my order?” she said later. “Why is it suitable?”

Illinois had followed California and Oregon on Monday in the deposit to prevent Trump from sending federal troops to his state. The judge in the case, April Mr. Perry, said at an emergency court hearing later in the day that she needed time to examine the case before ruling on the request of the state for a prohibition order.

Deployments

The Pentagon said on Sunday that 200 members of the guard were sent from California to Oregon.

Oregon governor Tina Kotek said 101 members of the California National Guard had arrived in his state on Saturday evening by plane and more were on the way. Kotek said that there had not been official communication with the federal government on deployment and that it could not verify the location of the members of the guard.

JB Pritzker announced on Sunday that Trump had ordered 400 members of the Texas National Guard to deploy in Illinois, Oregon and other states, without communicating with the Governor of Illinois. Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, said that he had “fully authorized” Trump to deploy up to 400 from the National Guard of his State to “guarantee the security of federal officials”.

While the president is advancing with efforts to federalize the Illinois National Guard, Chicago could see Texas troops deployed on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The decline

Small events take place outside the ICE installation in Portland since the start of Trump’s second term in January. There have been occasional thrusts, but for weeks, demonstrations every evening have attracted only a few dozen people.

Far from being “besieged” by activists, there were sometimes less than 10 demonstrators on the sidewalk one afternoon this week. Portland police arrested three on Thursday evening after Fistfights broke out between demonstrators and a pro-Trump influencer from Washington DC. On Saturday, around 400 people gathered outside the establishment of the ICE before the federal agents pulled on the gap cartridges in the crowd.

Trump, however, turned his attention to the city, calling Portland a city “ravaged by the war” which “burns” and as “living in hell”.

Local officials stressed that the demonstration occupies a city block far from the city center in a city which covers 145 miles m² (375 km2). They also say that many of his statements and publications on social networks seem to rely on images of 2020, when troubles that were born from Black Lives Matter demonstrations have gone a tour of the city for several months. Trump also sent federal police to the city.

Chicago also saw demonstrations during the weekend while residents pushed the president’s repression of immigration with demonstrations outside the BroadView Immigration Center. The officials report that federal agents acted violently towards the demonstrators and the mayor of BroadView promulgated a curfew limiting demonstrations outside the establishment at certain times.

Trump characterized both Portland and Chicago while cities go upmarket with crimes and troubles, in addition to calling the first a “war zone”, he suggested that apocalyptic force was necessary to suppress problems in the latter. Since the start of his second mandate, he sent or spoke of sending troops to 10 cities, including Baltimore, Maryland; Memphis, Tennessee; The Columbia district; New Orleans, Louisiana; And the cities of California of Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

But the governors of Illinois and Oregon see deployments differently.

Pritzker retaliated on Sunday in Kristi Noem, Trump’s internal security secretary, who reiterated the rhetoric of the “area of ​​war”. Appearing on cnn State of the Union with Jake Tapper, the governor of Illinois, accused the administration of having fueled the crisis rather than resolving it. “They are the ones who make it a war zone,” he said.

“They have to get out of Chicago. If they do not focus on the worst of the worst, which the president said they were going to do, they have to go out.”