State Attorney General Dan Rayfield said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memo to Gov. Tina Kotek authorizing 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to the city of Portland.
President Donald Trump directed DHS and the Defense Department to send in the troops to protect federal property "from attack[s] by Antifa and other domestic terrorists."
The suit was filed after the Defense Department sent a memo to Oregon state leaders informing them about the deployment of 200 National Guard troops in Portland.
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced that the state and the City of Portland have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and top federal officials over the deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members.
Oregon officials sued the Trump administration one day after President Donald Trump ordered troops to Portland he said were needed to quell protests outside an immigration facility. The suit filed
Oregon and the city of Portland are suing President Donald Trump to block the federal government from deploying hundreds of Oregon National Guard members in an unprecedented crackdown in Oregon’s largest city.
Officials in Oregon are going to federal court to challenge the Trump administration’s legal authority to deploy as many as 200 federalized National Guard members in Portland.
Oregon officials also announced legal action on Sunday as the state's Attorney General filed a lawsuit arguing that the deployment of National Guard troops was "provocative and arbitrary"
Officials in Oregon have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops in Portland, adding to legal battles against President Trump’s use of troops in major cities.
Oregon filed a federal lawsuit to block President Donald Trump's plan to deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland for 60 days to protect federal property.
