US federal judge rules Trump unlawfully seized control of Oregon National Guard

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : It also targeted memoranda authorizing deployments of California and Texas Guard units to the same one-block ICE facility, despite the absence of any request from the federal officials actually responsible for its security.
49% : The evidence, she wrote, showed that serious unrest around the ICE building in South Portland was brief, peaked in mid-June, and had substantially subsided long before the guard was called.
47% : In a 106-page opinion, US District Judge Karin Immergut held that Trump's federalization of 200 Oregon National Guard members, followed by deployments involving federalized California and Texas Guard troops to a single Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, exceeded his statutory authority and violated the Tenth Amendment's protections for state sovereignty.
44% : "The evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon's governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building, exceeded the president's authority," Judge Immergut wrote, emphasizing that the guard, unless lawfully federalized, remains a state militia under the command of the governor, not an all-purpose domestic force at the president's disposal.
42% : The court found that crowds were often fewer than a few dozen people, that most demonstrations were peaceful, that more federal officers than protesters were present on many nights, and that the scattered violence and property damage did not impede ICE from carrying out immigration enforcement beyond a short-lived June disruption.
38% : Citing testimony from Portland Police Bureau commanders, she found no evidence that Antifa in the city constituted a cohesive organization directing the ICE protests or orchestrating violence against the government.

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