Court Blocks Trump From Deploying 300 California National Guard Troops to Portland as Newsom Vows to Sue

On October 5, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he would sue the Trump administration: just one day earlier, a federal court had blocked the federalization and deployment of Oregon's National Guard to Portland, Oregon, and the administration responded by sending 300 California National Guard personnel north instead. That evening, a federal judge issued a further temporary restraining order barring the deployment of any federalized National Guard members to Oregon, in what California declared another court victory.

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut had issued the first temporary restraining order on October 4 in Oregon's lawsuit against President Trump, halting the federalization of the Oregon National Guard and its deployment into Portland. The Trump-appointed judge wrote that the nation's tradition of resisting government overreach "all boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law," and that the President's statements about conditions in Portland were not "conceived in good faith" but were "simply untethered to the facts."

In his October 5 statement, Newsom said the 300 California troops were the very personnel federalized months earlier for the Los Angeles mission, and that they were already on their way to Portland. "This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power," he said. "The commander-in-chief is using the U.S. military as a political weapon against American citizens." He said California would take the fight to court, "but the public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States."

California then joined Oregon and the city of Portland in asking the court for a second order. Court filings by the plaintiffs stated that 101 federalized California Guard members had arrived at the Portland Air National Guard Base in the early hours of October 5, with 99 more expected to arrive that afternoon.

At a hearing that evening, Judge Immergut granted the second temporary restraining order, barring the deployment of federalized National Guard members to Oregon. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the administration's attempt to circumvent the previous day's order by redeploying troops from Los Angeles to Portland was "flagrant disregard for the courts."

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Source: Office of the Governor of California

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