Ninth Circuit Hears Arguments On Portland Guard Deployment

Judge Immergut's temporary restraining order a week ago prohibiting Trump from deploying the National Guard to protect the ICE facility in Portland has disappeared from the news, probably because the issues are complex, but they mostly favor Trump. On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals placed an administrative hold on the case prior to hearing arguments on Thursday. Via the Oregon Capital Chronicle,

U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut. . . granted the restraining order against Oregon Guard deployment on Saturday, saying the Trump administration had not made the case that a “rebellion” was taking place at the protests outside the ICE facility.

A stay would prevent Immergut’s order from taking effect, but because of a second, broader restraining order she issued Sunday that has not yet been appealed, federal troops still couldn’t be deployed.

Via Oregon Public Broadcasting,

Federal law allows the president to deploy Guard members if there’s an invasion from a foreign nation, a rebellion or if the president cannot carry out federal laws with “regular forces.”

Immergut, who was nominated by Trump, found the administration did not clearly prove those were the conditions taking place in Portland. She said the White House, therefore, could not send in troops to deal with protests at Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building.

“The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts,” Immergut wrote in her initial ruling.

"The facts" appear to differ widely depending on whether you're a Portland-area resident or you live almost anywhere else.

Portland is in full gaslight mode over the Antifa assaults on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on a near-nightly basis. Legacy media is helping in the deception by ignoring the story for the most part since June and then committing resources to the story only after they fashioned it into a Trump's Picking on Portland narrative, covering the facility during the daytime when there are generally no attacks on ICE officers in the driveway of the facility, and highlighting the costumed protesters wearing fuzzy furry suits.

Back to the Oregon Public Broadcasting link:

The appeals court panel indicated in its [Thursday] questioning that the president has sweeping authorities when it comes to law enforcement. The panel was made up of Judges Ryan Nelson, Bridget Bade and Susan Graber. Nelson and Bade were appointed by Trump during his first term, while Graber — a former Oregon Supreme Court justice — was appointed by President Clinton.

The judges also used Thursday’s hearing to question whether the judiciary has the authority to put limitations on National Guard deployments if the president believes it is necessary.

“I am sort of trying to figure out how a district court of any nature is supposed to get in and question whether the president’s assessment of executing the laws is right or wrong,” Nelson stated.

. . . The judges from the 9th Circuit did not immediately issue a ruling, but said that they would offer their opinion as quickly as possible.

All the furries that turn up in photos of the Portland demonstrations have me scratching my head. Several of them appear in almost any given photo, both of the tamer daytime protests and the more violent episodes after dark. And we've begun to encunter furries outside Portland, too -- Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson's trans partner had a sidline kink as a furry, for instance. Back then, I noted that YouTube pop psychologist Dr Todd Grande felt the need to reassure us that only a small subset of furries have sex with each other while dressed in animal suits.

Well, maybe so, but even if there's no kinky connotation here at all, what are we to make of fully-grown adults wearing onesie costumes better suited for toddlers? I did a quick check, and you can certainly get adult animal onesies everywhere from Walmart on up, but they're advertised and sold as bedtime wear, not something meant for going out in public. There's a serious incongruity here. And as Victoria Taft noted in the accounts I've cited here, the media in covering the Portland protests stresses that families with children attend.

Really? I wouldn't want a grown man in a chicken onesie anywhere near a kid of mine. What on earth is the matter with Portland? Nothing to see here, just a bunch of adult furries dressed up in toddler jammies parading in front of kids, completely harmless. Only a small subset of these guys have sex with each other. Whatever you're thinking, it's simply untethered to the facts.