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Judge blocks Trump from deploying California National Guard u or any Guard troops u in Oregon

Oct. 5, 2025

Gov. Newsom called President TrumpAs deployment of California National Guard troops to Oregon a obreathtaking abuse of power.o

In June, Newsom filed a federal lawsuit over TrumpAs mobilization of
the stateAs National Guard during L.A.As immigration protests.

Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to seek a court order to
stop President Trump from deploying 300 of the stateAs National Guard
troops in Oregon, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on Sunday night.

Officials from California and Oregon sought the restraining order after the president sent California Guard troops to Oregon earlier on Sunday.

oThe rule of law has prevailed u and CaliforniaAs National Guard will be heading home,o Newsom said in a statement. oThis ruling is more than a
legal victory, itAs a victory for American democracy itself. Donald Trump tried to turn our soldiers into instruments of his political will, and
while our fight continues, tonight the rule of law said, aHell no.Ao Advertisement

The federal judge who issued the restraining order Sunday evening had, just
a day before, temporarily blocked the Trump administrationAs efforts to federalize OregonAs National Guard.

oWhat was unlawful yesterday is unlawful today,o Oregon Atty. Gen. Dan Rayfield told the Associated Press. oThe judgeAs order was not some minor procedural point for the president to work around, like my 14-year-old does when he doesnAt like my answers.o

Originally, the two states only named the California National Guard when seeking the court order. They asked for the order to be expanded to any
Guard troops, however, after a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was submitted to the court saying up to 400 Texas National Guard personnel were being activated for deployment to Oregon, Illinois and possibly elsewhere. Advertisement

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday night in a post on X that he ofully authorizedo the use of the Texas National Guard to oensure safety for
federal officials.o oYou can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it,o he wrote.

In the more sweeping order on Sunday evening, Judge Karin Immergut
questioned the federal governmentAs attorney, asking how the decision to
send troops from California and Texas to Oregon could not be seen as
anything other than circumventing her order.

Constitutional law experts also called the move an obvious effort by the president to sidestep the judgeAs ruling on Saturday.
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oThis is a blatant attempt to circumvent Judge ImmergutAs order,o said Elizabeth Goitein, the senior director of the Brennan CenterAs Liberty and National Security Program. oHer decision makes very clear that there is no lawful basis for deploying federalized National Guard troops in Oregon.o

Such an action is without precedent, said Jessica Levinson, a law professor
at Loyola Law School.

oI cannot think of a historic analog where we have the president u against
the will of local elected officials u sending the federalized National
Guard from state A to state B,o she said.

Trump, who mobilized the California National Guard amid immigration
protests in Los Angeles in June, has pursued the use of the military in
cities including Chicago and Washington, sparking outrage among Democratic officials in those jurisdictions.

He says the interventions are needed to fight crime. Local leaders,
including those in Portland, have said the actions are unnecessary and
without legal justification.

oThe Trump Administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law
itself and putting into action their dangerous words u ignoring court
orders and treating judges, even those appointed by the President himself,
as political opponents,o Newsom said.

The federal jurist who issued the ruling in Oregon, Judge Immergut, was appointed by Trump during his first term.

In June, Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed a federal lawsuit over TrumpAs mobilization of the stateAs National Guard during immigration protests in Los Angeles.

In a statement before Judge ImmergutAs ruling Sunday evening, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said that Trump oexercised his lawful
authority to protect federal assets and personnel in Portland following violent riots and attacks on law enforcement.o

Referring to Newsom by a crude nickname, she said that he oshould stand on
the side of law-abiding citizens instead of violent criminals destroying Portland and cities across the country.o

Jackson couldnAt be reached Sunday evening following the temporary
restraining order.


There have been regular protests in Portland outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in recent weeks. But those demonstrations in a city of nearly 650,000 have been far smaller and less disruptive than, for example, the protests there during the summer of 2020.

Immergut noted in her ruling Saturday that the scale of recent
demonstrations didnAt justify the use of federalized forces and that
deploying them could hurt OregonAs sovereignty.

Goitein said it was clear that the conditions detailed under that order had not been met by the Trump administration. oSo what heAs doing is illegal, under her opinion,o Goitein said.



As protesters filled L.A. streets in June to demonstrate over federal immigration enforcement raids, Trump deployed nearly 2,000 members of the National Guard to the city without the consent of the governor.

If not for the National Guard, Trump said, oLos Angeles would have been completely obliterated.o

But local and state leaders criticized the move as an unwarranted
escalation. And The Times reported that many Guard personnel had little to
do and seemed bored by the assignment.

Days after the Guard was deployed, Newsom and Bonta filed a lawsuit. Last month, a federal judge ruled that the presidentAs use of the National Guard soldiers and Marines in L.A. was illegal u but he allowed the 300 remaining here to stay as long as they did not enforce civilian laws. The Trump administration appealed the ruling.

Those same 300 troops were rerouted to Portland on Sunday, a spokesperson
for the governor said.

oThe Trump AdministrationAs flagrant disregard for the courts was on full display when it sought to circumvent Judge ImmergutAs order blocking the federalization of the Oregon National Guard by redeploying troops from Los Angeles to Portland,o Bonta said. oThis disrespect for the rule of law
cannot stand u and IAm glad the court agreed.o

Newsom has ratcheted up his rhetoric about Trump in recent days: On Friday, Newsom lashed out at universities that may sign the presidentAs higher education compact, which demands rightward campus policy shifts in exchange for priority federal funding.

oI need to put pressure on this moment and pressure test where we are in
U.S. history, not just California history,o Newsom said. oThis is it. We
are losing this country.o

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