UPDATE (OCT 5, 8 pm): The same federal judge that ruled in favor of the state's temporary restraining order to block Trump's attempts to send Oregon National Guard members to Portland, has also blocked the administration from deploying troops from California to the city. White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller posted on social media platform X—where he regularly spreads falsehoods using inflammatory language—that the judge's decision is "an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself." This has been a major point among local officials as well as the attorneys pushing for the emergency restraining order, who said that it has been the president's actions—not those of protesters exercising their First Amendment rights—that have been escalating the situation at the ICE facility.
Author: Wm. Steven Humphrey
Published at: 2025-10-05 21:45:00
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