Trump-Appointed Judge Rips President's Plot to Defy Her [View all]

A judge appointed by President Donald Trump blocked his latest blue-city takeover for the second time in as many days after a contentious emergency hearing.

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut said during an at-times contentious Sunday night telephone hearing that the administration appeared to have deliberately violated her ruling temporarily halting the deployment of Oregon National Guard troops to Portland.

After the first ruling, Trump pivoted and ordered hundreds of members of the Texas and California National Guard to deploy to Oregon, forcing Immergut to issue a second injunction blocking deployment of any “federalized members of the National Guard” to the state.

The judge, who was appointed by Trump in 2019, seemed incredulous that the government would send troops from other states just hours after her ruling, considering the constitutional principles are the same regardless of which state they come from, the Associated Press reported.

“How could bringing in federalized National Guard from California not be in direct contravention to the temporary restraining order I issued yesterday?” she questioned the federal government’s attorney, cutting him off.

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