Who believes they are the real "Kings" in the battle over deploying Oregon National Guard troops to back up federal ICE officers in Portland? Answer: The woke and elected officials who brought the boneheaded lawsuits that asserted President Donald Trump's social media bluster trumps the president's U.S. Constitutional and Congressional permission to federalize Oregon National Guard units to back up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A panel of federal judges on the Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Oregon's governor and attorney general, Portland's mayor, and the Portland police chief should ditch their plastic crowns and engage in a little "common sense" from now on.
It's true what they say: Leftists always accuse the other side of what they themselves are doing — in this case, acting as "Kings."
It turns out that the "Kings" in this court case are the Constitution, the rule of law, and Congressional authority.
Indeed, the conclusion of this case was predictable. It wasn't even close. The Ninth Circuit Court agreed that the president of the United States, regardless of who he is, has constitutional and congressional authority to deploy Oregon National Guard soldiers to Portland's Immigration and Customs Enforcement HQ. Thusly, woke Oregon lawmakers were told to go pound sand. Oh, and the judge who made not one, but two of the boneheaded prior decisions got a talking-to.
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In a 36-page ruling, with a concurrence and dissenting opinion filling out a 93-page document, the 9th Circuit ruled, Hey, Oregon, we already told you in Gavin Newsom's asshatted case about the same issue that the president has the legal authority to send the Guard to keep the peace around the federal ICE HQ. Why are you wasting our time and your taxpayers' money?
Undaunted by common sense and the law, however, Oregon went to court and asserted that the federal officers have done fine keeping the violent rabble away on a nightly basis without the help of the Guard. Unsaid by the Oregon officials, of course, is that the feds have also been doing it without local law enforcement, either.
Much evidence was brought up at the 9th Circuit, including the fact that the Federal Protective Services (FPS) has spent $2 million on overtime for 25% of the nation's FPS entire force to be sent to Portland to keep ICE officers from getting iced by Antifa morons. Indeed, the feds claimed that these officers have been working 12-hour days, seven days a week, to contend with the Portland-indulged domestic terrorists trying to hurt them.
The courts provided a timeline of violence brought against the feds at the ICE facility, providing a constant tempo of violence at the site. There were reports of illegal drone use looking into the upper windows of the ICE facility. The most interesting one to me, however, was coercing homeless people to act as distractions while the violent Antifa cell members did their other activities.
On September 4, a PPB officer reported seeing several older homeless people being coerced into approaching the ICE facility gate; the instigators told these people that they should create a distraction or simply rattle the gate. Officers confirmed this was happening by watching “the instigators escorting different [older homeless people] up to the gate.” FPS took custody of an elderly man after he asked 'if he could just come up to the gate and rattle it so the antifa instigators would leave him and others alone.' He was escorted behind the gates and interviewed. He told agents that he and several other homeless people were being coerced to act 'to instigate agent response.'
Hell, that's what the "mob" does. And so Antifa is. A recent guest on my Adult in the Room Podcast, Ryan Mauro, is right when a study proved that Antifa has been co-opting homeless programs. This seems to fit right in with that coercion. Wow.
There's plenty more about that here:
The federal appeals court ruled that the appeal filed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was likely to succeed if this dumb case went to a higher court — the Supreme Court — and, as a result, voided Oregon's temporary restraining order preventing the Guard from helping.
Though the appeals court stated that this decision was only about Oregon National Guard units being deployed, and not a second boneheaded decision by the same federal judge, Karin Immergut, to stop Texas and California troops from being deployed in Portland, the 9th Circuit majority ruled that she depended on the same dull logic that the [Gavin] Newsom decision used when they spiked that lawsuit too. Take a hint, lady.
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Indeed, both the majority and dissenting judge said Immergut substituted her judgment for the president's. Who's the royal now? What the court said about that was tantamount to spanking a child.
"Rather than reviewing the President’s determination with great deference, the district court substituted its own determination of the relevant facts and circumstances," the Ninth Circuit ruled. Then came the haymaker: "That approach is error under Newsom. Our dissenting colleague takes a similar approach." Ouch.
The decision makes plain that President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth can send in the 200 National Guard troops for 60 days to secure the federal building.
When they're going to do it isn't known right now.
