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The governor of California, Gavin Newsom announced on Sunday that he is suing President Trump concerning the claimed dispatch of 300 Californian national guard personnel to the state of Oregon.

“The troops are currently en route,” Newsom stated during a press announcement. “The Trump Administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself and putting into action their risky words – ignoring legal directives and considering court officials, including those named by the President, as adversaries.”

Judicial Context and Federal Decision

The governor's legal action is in response to a judicial order that blocked the Trump administration from deploying the Oregon national guard to Portland. Judge Karin Immergut upheld arguments that it would inflame rather than reduce tensions in the urban area.

Immergut said in her order, which puts off dispatching the forces until at least 18 October, that there was a absence of factual support that the recent protests in the city justified the action.

City Authorities React

The senior deputy attorney, the deputy attorney, noted that there had been no violence against immigration officials for an extended period and that recent Ice protests were calm in the week before the president declared the city to be a conflict area, occasionally involving fewer than a dozen demonstrators.

“Public safety is not the real concern, it’s about power,” Newsom asserted. “Legal action will be our response, but the people must not remain quiet in the face of such reckless and dictatorial behavior by the nation's leader.”

State Attorney General Comments

Through an announcement online, the state's attorney general stated that the government is evaluating choices and getting ready to file suit.

“The administration is obviously hellbent on sending the military in U.S. urban centers, absent evidence or legal basis to do so,” he wrote. “Our responsibility and the courts to hold him accountable. This is our plan.”

National and Local Reaction

The California national guard directed inquiries to the Department of Defense. A agency spokesman offered no response. There was no immediate comment from the executive branch.

National Context

The news from Oregon came just a 24 hours after the President ordered the dispatch of military personnel to the city of Chicago, the newest in a succession of comparable operations across several American states.

Trump had first announced the initiative on 27 September, claiming he was approving maximum deployment, should it be required” regardless of pleas from state authorities and the state’s congressional delegation, who indicated there had been a single, calm rally outside an immigration office.

Past Background

Over a long period, the President has amplified the narrative that Portland is a battle-scarred city with activists involved in unrest and unlawful behavior.

During his first term in 2020, he deployed federal forces to the metropolis amid the protests over the killing by police of George Floyd in another city. The demonstrations expanded across the US but were particularly intense in Portland. Despite demonstrations against immigration officials being fairly limited in the region recently, the President has used them as a justification to send personnel.

Commenting online about the new decision from Trump, Newsom commented: “It is outrageous. It’s un-American, and action is needed to halt it.”