Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he will sue President Donald Trump over his deployment of 300 California National Guard troops to Portland despite a judge’s order that the administration not deploy members to Oregon.
Newsom claimed earlier on Sunday that Trump chose to go around a federal judge’s Saturday decision that the military not be sent to Portland to quell violent left-wing rioters outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility downtown and implored the public to fight “authoritarian” Trump.
“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,” the California governor said in a statement.
Later, Newsom announced he will be suing Trump over the deployment, calling it “appalling” and “un-American.”
“BREAKING: We’re suing Donald Trump. His deployment of the California National Guard to Oregon isn’t about crime. It’s about power. He is using our military as political pawns to build up his own ego,” he posted on X. “And it must stop.”
The White House has not announced a plan to send the California Guard into Oregon, but Trump administration officials had vowed to do more to crack down on violence in Portland after a conservative independent reporter, Nick Sortor, was arrested by police in Portland last week.
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In a statement, Newsom said the decision to move hundreds of California personnel to Oregon on Saturday was “a breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”
On Saturday, Trump appointee U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut granted Oregon a temporary restraining order against the deployment of the Oregon National Guard. That ban is set to expire on Oct. 18.
