Overview

• Justice Department attorneys told a federal judge that hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers are already in transit to Illinois.
• In the Illinois case, Judge April Perry let the transfers proceed for now and ordered a government response due on Oct. 8.
• In Oregon, Judge Karin Immergut temporarily blocked federalizing the state’s Guard and halted a planned cross-state Guard deployment to Portland.
• Reports say 200 federal agents were sent to Portland despite judicial pushback, as the administration orders or moves forces toward Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and Portland.
• President Trump says he will invoke the Insurrection Act if necessary, while legal analysts note any use remains constrained by the Constitution and subject to later court review.