Trump DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate for Protesting ICE
One such region the president has focused on is Portland, Oregon, a city better known for its Voodoo Donuts and cold drinks than its hellish riots. Late last month, the president ordered the National Guard to go to hipster heaven, but the reason he sent them was not supported by statistics or data; rather, it was because of something he had seen on television.
The other crime statistics that motivated his decision to federalize law enforcement in American cities were completely imagined. When Trump deployed hundreds of National Guard members to Washington in August, he placed the blame squarely on the city. rising crime data— starting in 2023. The cherry-picked statistics misrepresent the state of crime in the nation’s capital, which, according to Metropolitan Police data touted by Trump’s own FBI, was actually down last year by 35 percent.
One month before the presidential election, the Brennan Center for Justice called the Posse Comitatus Act “too fragile a guardrail” to truly protect the nation from a Trump White House, explaining that the principle of the law is protected “more by historical norms and practice” than by the law itself. “Unfortunately, we have entered an era in which we can no longer rely on tradition to constrain executive action,” Joseph Nunn, an attorney in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, wrote at the time.
