Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s National Guard Deployment to Portland, Citing ‘Untethered to Facts’ Order
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s National Guard Deployment to Portland, Citing ‘Untethered to Facts’ Order On October 4, 2025, a federal district court judge, Karin Immergut, issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s directive to deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. The Trump-appointed judge ruled that the president’s order was “simply untethered to the facts,” finding that protest activity in the city had been “small and uneventful” for months. The decision came after the state of Oregon…