A US federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Sunday that blocks the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Oregon, Texas, and California until 5PM Friday, November 7.

District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a first-term Trump appointee, found that the administration’s federalization and proposed deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon in response to protests outside a federal building in Oregon exceeded statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. §12406 and the Tenth Amendment . Immergut found that the president did not have a “colorable basis to conclude that protesters’ activities significantly impeded the ability of federal officers to execute the laws.”

Immergut has granted relief several times in recent weeks, following the initial suit filed by th

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