(Los Angeles) American justice has once again blocked indefinitely the deployment of National Guard soldiers in Portland (West), an additional setback for Donald Trump in his standoff with Democratic cities and states.
On October 20, a federal appeals court authorized the executive to deploy some 200 members of the National Guard in Portland, in the face of demonstrations against the immigration police (ICE), the main instrument of the American president in his policy of mass expulsions of illegal aliens.
But this same court of appeal decided Tuesday evening to re-examine the case at an undetermined date, in a panel extended to all judges, once again blocking this deployment.
The trial judge who initially blocked it in early October scheduled three days of debates starting Wednesday to rule on the merits.
“The appeals court sends a clear message: the president cannot send the army into cities across the United States without necessity,” Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said in a statement.
“(Wednesday) we will go to the trial court to make our case for this deployment to be blocked permanently,” he also wrote on X.
The courts already suspended the deployment of hundreds of National Guard soldiers in Chicago in October, as requested by the town hall of the third city in the country and the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker.
But Donald Trump urgently appealed to the Supreme Court with a conservative majority on October 17 to obtain authorization to deploy them. This decision could come at any time.
Since June, the Republican president has sent the National Guard to Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis, each time against the advice of local Democratic authorities.
Donald Trump has made the fight against illegal immigration a top priority, speaking of an “invasion” of the United States by “criminals from abroad” and communicating extensively on expulsions of immigrants.
