Overview

• A federal judge blocked the administration from federalizing Oregon’s National Guard for Portland, ruling that the president cannot unilaterally declare the legal conditions met and faulting the cited crime claims.
• President Trump responded by threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, saying he would do so if people were being killed and courts or local officials were holding him up.
• Stephen Miller denounced the ruling as “legal insurrection” and argued judges lack authority to limit the commander in chief’s ability to deploy forces to protect federal property.
• Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and California Gov. Gavin Newsom escalated public pushback, with Pritzker condemning a recent Chicago ICE raid and Newsom warning that the country is on the brink of martial law.
• Polling cited in the coverage shows significant opposition to these deployments, with a CBS survey finding 58% against National Guard use and another poll showing 51% oppose Guard assistance to ICE.