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President Donald Trump’s administration netted a win on Monday in a U.S. federal appeals court, getting the green light to deploy National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, amid Democrat state and city leaders’ stark opposition.
According to Reuters, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request to lift a U.S. district judge’s order blocking the Oregon National Guard’s deployment into the city after President Trump authorized the troop movement in late September.
The judge who paused the deployment – U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut – said that the president’s authorization of troop movement “exceeds the constitutional authority that Congress granted him” and further argued that it violated the sovereignty of the state of Oregon “as protected by the Tenth Amendment.”
The Tenth Amendment notes that any powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution or prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.
The appeals court ruling noted in its concurring opinion that “while Plaintiffs have significant interests, their arguments are, ‘in essence, a merits argument that we have already resolved. The Constitution assigns the power to ‘call[] forth the Militia’ to Congress, and Congress has delegated portions of that power to the President.’”
This comes amid the Trump administration’s ongoing plans to expand federal immigration and law enforcement operations nationwide.
As reported by RSBN, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has strongly forged ahead with the administration’s mission to crack down on crime, despite Democrat opposition. “We’re hardening our federal buildings in Chicago and Portland,” she said earlier this month.
She also said that the DHS has plans to implement stronger security measures to protect federal law enforcement agents while they are carrying out their work.