Overview

• U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut extended two temporary restraining orders that bar deploying Oregon or any National Guard troops to Portland for another two weeks.
• The Ninth Circuit is weighing the government’s appeal, and its administrative stay allows Oregon Guard members to remain in federal status but not deploy to Portland during deliberations.
• Immergut previously broadened her initial order after the administration sought to send in federalized troops from California and Texas, and no Guard units have deployed in the city.
• Portland leaders are advancing the Protect Portland Initiative to formalize sanctuary protections and publicly urge the federal government to stand down planned deployments.
• In earlier findings, the judge rejected descriptions of Portland as resembling a war zone, calling those claims "simply untethered to the facts."