National Guard, Oregon and Portland
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During a hearing on Friday, lawyers told a judge that National Guard troops sent from Republican-led states had been conducting conduct law enforcement work.
As court rulings shift “hour by hour,” experts say city officials must build a united front with law enforcement, businesses and communities — before troops arrive.
Experts say immigration agents have more latitude to be destructive than National Guard—with fewer avenues for San Francisco to push back.
According to President Donald Trump, he alone gets to decide when or if such conditions exist. Or, as Trump recently argued in a legal filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, "such decisions are committed to the discretion of the President and are unreviewable" by the federal courts.
A three-judge panel appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s arguments that the president has judicially un-reviewable power when it comes to the deployment of the National Guard on the streets of Los Angeles.
The new bill in New York would allow the state attorney general to sue for a court order blocking a guard deployment if another state attempted to send troops without authorization. That wouldn’t include cases where the guard has been formally federalized, according to News 10.
Federal lawyers claimed a surge of 115 federal police were needed over the summer to quell protests, but Oregon alleges fewer than 31 were ever on the ground at any given time.
A D.C. man filed a lawsuit stating that 'The Imperial March' is used in his peaceful protests against U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard members.