Portland Update
As I noted yesterday, both Portland city and the State of Oregon sued to block the use of National Guard troops to protect the ICE facility and maintain order in the area. The judge said she would rule on their request for a temporary restraining order over the weekend. This she did : US District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump nominee, ruled Saturday that deploying active-duty troops to secure the “war ravaged” Oregon city would violate the US Constitution and federal law barring military involvement in domestic law enforcement. “The relationship between the federal government and the states, between the military and domestic law enforcement, and the balance of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government,” she wrote in her ruling. . . . In her ruling, Karin pointed out that scores of demonstrations held outside a south Portland immigration facility were not notably violent or disruptive in the days and weeks before Trump’s order. “Overall...