The federal judge in Oregon who ruled against President Donald Trump by temporarily blocking his push to deploy troops to Portland has received bipartisan praise throughout her career and has issued rulings that could be viewed as benefiting both left- and right-wing causes.
US District Judge Karin Immergut on Saturday issued a ruling that temporarily prevented the Trump administration from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to protect an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has been the focus of recent protests in Portland.
The Trump administration has portrayed the protests as violent riots that needs to be quelled by the military, while officials in Oregon have said that state and local law enforcement are capable of responding and that the push to introduce troops to the city could ratchet up tensions.
In her ruling, Immergut said state and city officials “provide(d) substantial evidence that the protests at the Portland ICE facility were not significantly violent or disruptive in the days—or even weeks—leading up to the President’s directive” ordering the deployment of troops to Oregon late last month.
The administration responded to Immergut’s ruling by attempting to deploy National Guard troops from California to Oregon.
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