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The governor of California, Gavin Newsom announced on Sunday that he is filing a lawsuit against President Trump regarding the reported deployment of three hundred California state guard troops to the state of Oregon.

“The troops are currently en route,” Newsom remarked in his official statement. “The Trump Administration is blatantly undermining the rule of law itself and enacting their risky words – defying court orders and viewing judges, including those named by the President, as adversaries.”

Legal Background and National Ruling

This planned court challenge comes after a federal judge’s ruling that blocked the White House from sending the state guard of Oregon to Portland. Judge Karin Immergut upheld assertions that it would escalate rather than calm unrest in the urban area.

Immergut said in her order, which postpones sending the guard until at least the 18th of October, that there was a absence of factual support that the current demonstrations in Portland justified the decision.

Local Officials React

The senior deputy attorney, Portland’s senior deputy attorney, said that there had been no violence against federal agents for an extended period and that current rallies were peaceful in the days before the national leader labeled the city to be a battlefield, at times including less than twelve protesters.

“Public safety is not the real concern, it concerns authority,” Newsom said. “Legal action will be our response, but the people must not remain quiet in the wake of such dangerous and autocratic actions by the President of the United States.”

State Legal Chief Weighs In

Through an announcement on social media, Oregon attorney general Dan Rayfield expressed that the state is reviewing possible actions and preparing to take legal action.

“The administration is obviously intent on sending the military in U.S. urban centers, without evidence or justification to do so,” he noted. “The duty falls on us and the legal system to demand answers. That’s what we intend to do.”

National and State Response

The California national guard passed on queries to the Department of Defense. A department spokesperson offered no response. There was no immediate comment from the White House.

National Background

The news from the state came just a short time after Trump authorized the sending of state guard forces to the city of Chicago, the latest in a string of parallel operations across numerous American states.

The President had first announced the plan on 27 September, claiming he was approving maximum deployment, should it be required” regardless of appeals from state authorities and the state’s congressional delegation, who reported there had been a solitary, uneventful rally outside a federal agency location.

Historical Background

For years, the President has amplified the narrative that Portland is a “war-ravaged” urban center with activists participating in unrest and illegal activities.

During his first term in the year 2020, he deployed national troops to the city amid the demonstrations over the murder by law enforcement of an individual in another city. The unrest expanded across the United States but were notably severe in that city. Regardless of demonstrations against federal authorities being relatively small in the region currently, Trump has used them as a justification to dispatch personnel.

Remarking on X about the recent action from the President, Newsom said: “It’s appalling. It is contrary to our principles, and it must be stopped.”