Oregon sues Trump administration over plans to send troops to Portland
Oregon state has filed a complaint against the Trump administration after the president said He will send troops in PortlandThe prosecutor general of the state Dan Rayfield announced on Sunday.
This comes after the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, sent a service note to Governor Tina Kotek authorizing 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to the city of Portland, said Rayfield in a press release. Troops must be deployed for 60 days to protect federal goods “where demonstrations occur or are likely to occur,” he said.
The trial argued that Mr. Trump does not have the power to federalize the National Guard. California filed a similar prosecution in June After the administration, sent troops to Los Angeles.
“Oregon communities are stable and our local managers have been clear: we have the capacity to manage public security without federal interference”, Rayfield in a press release.
“The sending of 200 troops from the National Guard to keep a single building is not normal. If you had a concern about security in your home, you would make a few calls and combine the gaps – not call an army. What we see is not a question of public security, it is the arrowing president of the political muscles in the form of the law and the order, to continue a media blow at the expense of our community.”
CBS News contacted the White House to comment. Trump posted on social networks on Saturday that he had ordered HegSeth to send “all the troops necessary to protect the Ravaed Portland war, and any other installation of siege ice against antifa attacks and other domestic terrorists”.
Local officials, including Governor Kotek and the mayor of Portland, Keith Wilson, postponed Mr. Trump’s comments and plan to send troops to the city.
Kotek told journalists at a press conference on Saturday that she had spoken with Mr. Trump and said: “Our city is far from the community ravaged by the war he published on social networks and I transmitted it directly.” She also said that the president said to her, “Let’s continue to speak.”
“There is no insurrection, there is no threat to national security and there is no need for military troops in our big city,” said Kotek. “Military service members should be dedicated to real emergencies.”
