US District Judge Karin Immergut ruled Friday, November 7, that the Trump administration is permanently barred from deploying the National Guard to Oregon. The decision was a long-awaited ruling in a case that catapulted Portland into the national spotlight.

Immergut’s ruling is a permanent injunction against the U.S. Department of Defense and Secretary Pete Hegseth, as well as the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, banning them from carrying out recent plans to send troops to Portland. The ruling found that the federal government’s decision to briefly deploy unlawfully federalized troops to Oregon early last month violated US code and the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.

The ruling also found that “Oregon has suffered irreparable injury from the unlawful fede

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