President Donald Trump on Sunday deployed 300 California National Guard personnel to Portland, Oregon, a longtime hotbed of left-wing extremism where violent riots targeting federal buildings and facilities have persisted for months. The move comes after a federal judge in Oregon attempted to block the president from taking federal control of the Oregon national guard in order to deploy 200 troops.

The news was shared by an irate California Governor Gavin Newsom, who lost a court case earlier this year when California Attorney General Rob Bonta attempted to block the president from doing the same with the state’s national guard in order to quell several days of sustained unrest. The California deployment is ongoing at the discretion of War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now,” Newsom announced in an X post.

The governor added that the state will be challenging the deployment in court, calling it “authoritarian.”

The news broke just hours after U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee,  issued a temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland. The lawsuit, filed by the state of Oregon and the city of Portland, argued that Trump’s order —issued under 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to protect federal immigration facilities amid protests — claimed that the administration exaggerated threats and unlawfully seized control of the state’s National Guard without meeting the required legal threshold.

In her order, Immergut claimed that the protests outside the Portland federal facilities — which have been besieged by rioters for more than 100 consecutive days — have remained “mostly peaceful” and uneventful. “Overall, the protests were small and uneventful,” she wrote in her ruling.  “The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts.”

The order temporarily blocking the deployment expires on October 18.

Last week, President Trump ordered War Secretary Pete Hegseth to unleash “all necessary troops” to Portland and use “full force” to protect immigration authorities from Antifa-linked groups and other far-left militants. The commander in chief recently signed an executive order designating Antifa — the far-left, black bloc organization that has been implicated in numerous attacks and violent protests both in the U.S. and abroad over the past decade — as a terrorist organization.

On Saturday before the judge’s ruling, hundreds of protesters marched to the South Macadam Avenue detention center and clashed with federal agents, who fired tear gas, mace, and pepper spray, scattering the crowd, according to a report from the New York Post.

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the Portland Police Bureau over allegations of bias in favor of protesters and questionable handling of the weeks-long riots.

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