Posted on 10/21/2025 6:06:01 AM PDT by ransomnote
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A three-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to stay a district court order that had prevented the deployment of National Guard troops to the city. The majority opinion found it was likely that the president had lawfully exercised his statutory authority.
(Via Politico) – A federal appeals court panel has backed President Donald Trump’s authority to send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, concluding that though the president’s claims on social media “may exaggerate” the violence in the city, he may still have had a valid basis for the deployment.
The 2-1 ruling, endorsed by two Trump appointees to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, is the latest win for Trump’s effort to deploy the military into cities across the country over the fierce objections of state and local leaders. Trump has cited violence outside immigration facilities as a basis for the deployments, saying it has impeded his ability to enforce the law, but governors and mayors say there has been minimal unrest and Trump is using largely peaceful protests as a pretext to expand his power. (read more)
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Get them the help they so desperately need. There must be some kind of prescription medication for those kinds of issues, experimental or otherwise.
A president has the right to deploy troops from the national guard, or any other unit of the military to any location that he sees fit... Both in America, and everywhere else in the world. After all... He is the Commander in Chief.
The “King” wins again.
Wake me when that district court activist, I mean ‘judge’, is removed from the bench
“Activist?” Judge Nah...Queen
I love that the President has to have the courts first tell him how he can do his job.
Still having trouble finding that in the Constitution though...
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