In a very uncommon late-night emergency hearing, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut declared that the Trump administration's attempt to send California National Guard personnel to Portland was in "clear defiance" of a court order made on Saturday.
The Trump administration's attempt to circumvent her previous court decision that forbade the deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, according to Trump appointee Immergut, "troubled" her.
"I believe that the defendants' actions and the current Texas National Guard's request to return to Oregon constitute a clear violation of the order that was imposed yesterday," she stated.
Her ruling on Saturday found that the president's statements regarding Portland were "simply untethered to the facts" and that the city's circumstances were "not notably violent or disruptive" enough to support a federal takeover of the National Guard.
Immergut stated that her similar logic would apply to forbid the National Guard from being deployed from any other state, since DOJ attorneys could not find anything that has changed since her order on Saturday. She said that the federalization would infringe on Oregon's sovereign rights and violate the Tenth Amendment and federal law that permits the federal takeover of the National Guard in the event of an invasion or revolt.
She declared, "I have shown that it is inappropriate to send military personnel into Oregon.
"A stay of her order pending appeal was requested, but she turned it down.
The Ninth Circuit has not yet replied to the Trump administration's appeal of her Saturday order.
On directives from the White House, about 200 National Guard members traveled from California this past weekend and were ready to start guarding federal buildings on Monday, a U.S. official told ABC News.