18 h. ago US appeal court lets Trump send National Guard troops to Portland

A divided US appeal court ruled on Monday that US President Donald Trump can send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, despite objections by the leaders of the city and state, giving the Republican president an important legal victory as he dispatches military forces to a growing number of Democratic-led locales. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department’s request to put on hold a judge’s order that had blocked the deployment while a legal...

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18 h. ago US appeals court says Trump can deploy National Guard troops in Portland

A divided US appeals court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump can send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, despite objections by the leaders of the city and state, giving the Republican president an important legal victory as he dispatches military forces to a growing number of Democratic-led locales. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department’s request to put on hold a judge’s order that had blocked the deployment while a legal challenge to...

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1 week ago US judge blocks Trump’s deployment of National Guard in Illinois

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump’s deployment of hundreds of National Guard soldiers in Illinois, five days after another US judge blocked a similar deployment in Portland, Oregon. US District Judge April Perry said that permitting Guard troops in the state would only “add fuel to the fire”, after hearing more than two hours of arguments from lawyers for the US government and the state of Illinois, which sued the Trump administration over the...

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2 w. ago ‘Trump’s invasion’: Illinois sues to halt National Guard deployment to Chicago

The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago sued US President Donald Trump on Monday, seeking to block the deployment of federalised National Guard troops to Chicago, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas headed to the nation’s third-largest city. Trump then escalated the widening clash with Democratic-led states and cities over the domestic use of military forces, threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act as a means to circumvent court restrictions on deploying troops where they...

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2 w. ago Trump orders California National Guard to Oregon after court bars local troops

About 100 federalised California National Guard members were deployed in Oregon after a court barred US President Donald Trump from sending Oregon National Guard troops to Portland and state officials objected to their presence. The troops arrived Saturday night with no prior notice to state officials, and more troops were likely on the way, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek said in a statement on Sunday. Kotek, a Democrat, issued a statement after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he would...

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2 w. ago Trump orders National Guard troops to Portland, but judge blocks it

A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, Oregon, a setback for the president as he seeks to dispatch the military to cities over the objections of their Democratic leaders. The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut followed the Trump administration’s decision to call in troops from California and Texas just one day after she temporarily blocked Trump from deploying 200 Oregon National...

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2 w. ago Trump to send National Guard to Illinois, as he puts pressure on Chicago

US President Donald Trump authorised 300 National Guard troops for deployment to Illinois, over the objection of state officials, as part of his campaign to use state troops to aid federal officers conducting immigration arrests. “President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said on Saturday. The order signals an escalation in the administration’s focus on Chicago, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

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