Federal judge heavily teases outcome of National Guard case after 'great' deference to Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Protesters frequently blocked the driveway of the ICE building, but the evidence also showed that federal law enforcement officers were able to clear the driveway," the judge said.
44% : " Immergut did not use these words in her latest order, but she did find, as she did earlier in the case, that "sporadic violence against federal officers and property damage to" an ICE facility amid protests was not an organized "rebellion against the authority of the government" or an "attempt to overthrow the government as a whole.
36% : U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, wrote Sunday that there was simply a mismatch between the president's determinations and the facts on the ground as to the level of threat that protests outside the Portland ICE facility posed to federal property and federal officers.
32% : "The trial testimony produced no credible evidence of any significant damage to the ICE facility in the months before the President's callout and no credible evidence that ICE was unable to execute immigration laws.
19% : "Critically, the credible evidence at trial established that following a few days in June, which involved the high watermark of violence and unlawful activity outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ('ICE') building in Portland, Oregon, the protests outside the ICE facility between June 15 and September 27, 2025, were generally uneventful with occasional interference to federal personnel and property." Adding that a supposedly overrun and under siege high-ranking Federal Protective Service (FPS) official was "surprised to learn" about the deployment, and testified at trial that "neither he, nor the regional director of the FPS Region, made that request," Immergut said Trump "likely did not have a 'colorable basis'" to invoke 10 U.S. Code § 12406, a statute that authorizes the president to call up the guard when he is "unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.

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