Federal judge finds Trump Guard deployment to Portland illegal • Oregon Capital Chronicle A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return control of federalized Oregon and California Guard troops to each state’s governor.

BREAKING: Federal judge permanently blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland.
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Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied:
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Woman found not guilty of assaulting FBI agent during ICE arrest outside DC Jail Sidney Lori Reid was acquitted after a three-day trial plagued with evidence issues.

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U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:

A big victory for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense team.

Judge: Again, I'm handling on emergency basis, limited briefing, but new info has been provided. For all of the reasons stated in this court's previous order, I GRANT plaintiffs' motion for second TRO. The question is the scope of it.

Judge: How could bringing in NG from CA not be in direct contravention of TRO I issued yesterday?

DOJ: TRO related only to Oregon NG

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Aren't defendants clearly circumventing my order?

MEMORANDUM OF LAW I. INTRODUCTION Yesterday, this Court recognized that the legal principles at stake in this case “go[] to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.” Opinion & Order Granting Mot. for Temporary Restraining Order (“Order”), ECF 56 at 2. Applying those principles, this Court concluded that Defendants likely lacked authority to federalize Oregon National Guard members and ordered Defendants to halt federalization for 14 days. Defendants filed a notice of appeal last night (Ntc. of Appeal, ECF 57), and they have now asked the Ninth Circuit to stay the effect of this Court’s decision. Not content with this Court’s or the Ninth Circuit’s judgment, Defendants are now in the process of circumventing this Court's Order. After this Court ruled that 10 U.S.C. § 12406 could not justify federalizing the Oregon National Guard to deploy them to Portland, Defendants have deployed members of the California National Guard to Portland—servicemembers who were federalized under that very same Title 10 authority for deployment in Los Angeles. That redeployment is illegal: Setting aside whether the underlying federalization order from August violated Section 12406, the federalization order clearly did not contemplate the use of California

NEW: California joins Oregon and Portland in asking Judge Immergut for a SECOND temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from "circumventing this Court's Order" by deploying the federalized California National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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Key Excerpt #1:

Garcia Ramirez v. ICE case caption. ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND TO ENFORCE FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION Upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and to Enforce the Permanent Injunction and accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities and Declarations (the "Motion"), and all other materials properly before this Court, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion is GRANTED; and it is further ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from implementing any new directive regarding age-outs; ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from detaining any class member in an adult ICE facility in any manner that contravenes the Permanent Injunction; ORDERED that Defendants immediately rescind any determinations to detain based on this directive; ORDERED that Defendants immediately produce that directive, any related policies regarding that directive, and the Age-Out Review Worksheets of any class members who may have been impacted by that directive, including all AORs issued since October 1, 2025. SO ORDERED this 4th day of October 2025.

BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.

The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.

Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...

Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets.

Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues.

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BREAKING:

A federal judge ORDERS an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been vindictively prosecuted.

Abrego’s lawyers carried their burden of demonstrating enough evidence to warrant it.

Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.

2025 Worker-Led State Policy Victories Show How States Can—and Must—Do More To Hold the Line Against Escalating Federal Attacks on Workers’ Rights State action to strengthen worker rights and protections has become critically important at a moment when long-standing U.S. labor standards are under acute threat.

2025 Worker-Led State Policy Victories Show How States Can—and Must—Do More To Hold the Line Against Escalating Federal Attacks on Workers’ Rights portside.org/2025-08-18/2...

JUST IN: Oregon sues to stop Trump’s deployment of the military, saying its pretextual and that ICE protests have been small and relatively contained since June. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What Oregon’s political leaders are saying to Trump’s plan to send troops to Portland "The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city," Mayor Keith Wilson said.

"The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city," Mayor Keith Wilson said.

ICE releases Oregon firefighter arrested last month during Bear Gulch Fire Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez’s release came suddenly Wednesday morning without a court order.

ICE has released Oregon firefighter Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez from federal custody. Hernandez was arrested while working the Bear Gulch Fire in Washington, and his release came as a surprise Wednesday morning.

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JUST IN: Fed judge in RI bars enforcement of Trump anti-'gender ideology' exec ord against a group of National Endowment for the Arts grantees. Judge William Smith (GWBush) says 'zero explanation' of how NEA will apply policy it adopted. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The Executive Branch cannot whitewash a vindictive and selective prosecution by running it through a prosecutor who turns a blind eye to the motivations that launched it. And this is hardly the only time the President has sought to use DOJ to get revenge: The U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia was forced from office for not vindictively charging New York Attorney General Letitia James.1 In our case, the Chief of the Criminal Division resigned rather than bring this vindictive prosecution himself. That Mr. McGuire professes to believe that this case is a righteous one, while claiming ignorance of its origins, is no answer to our motion. It’s a dodge. In the government’s telling, this case started on April 27, 2025, when HSI Nashville presented the case to Mr. McGuire. (Dkt. 121-1 ¶ 4). That ignores weeks of retributive government conduct punishing Mr. Abrego for challenging his unlawful deportation: officials’ statements that he is a “gangbanger,” “monster,” “predator,” “terrorist,” and “wife beater”; an Oval Office Abbott and Costello routine about how neither President Trump nor President Bukele nor Attorney General Bondi—Mr. McGuire’s ultimate boss—had the power to return him; and the ultimate decision, made by officials senior to Mr. McGuire before the case was presented to him, to gin up an investigation and prosecution. (Dkt. 105 at 8-12). On the facts, the government’s perspective is conveniently tunnel visioned. On the law, what Mr. McGuire may believe is irrelevant. Despite the government’s many distractions, Mr. Abrego has presented clear, unrebutted evidence of vindictiveness warranting dismissal or, at a minimum, discovery and a hearing.

Lawgeeks, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's reply filing in support of his motion to dismiss the criminal case in Tennessee for vindictive and selective prosecution is an excellent, powerful (and short) read.

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Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case “This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of…

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him.

“This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

France will join the three next week.

"Australia, Canada and the UK announced their recognition of Palestinian statehood, in an apparently coordinated move that piles pressure on Israel and puts the three countries at odds with the US."

Trump’s new detention policy targets millions of immigrants. Judges keep saying it’s illegal. The administration says the sweeping detentions are a key prong of Trump’s deportation strategy.

NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades.

Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Ninth Circuit orders feds to turn over workforce purge documents The decision upholds a lower court ruling ordering the government to disclose its reorganization plans as part of discovery in a case relating to Trump's efforts to overhaul the federal government.

A panel of Ninth Circuit judges affirmed a lower court decision Friday compelling the government to turn over documents related to the White House’s plans to fire thousands of federal workers. @mhattridge.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circui...

A behind-the-scenes look at what may be driving down Portland's gun violence Despite a new report indicating a decline in homicides and other violent crimes in Portland this year, community organizations say there's more work to be done.

Community organizations like Love is Stronger GV is working to disrupt and prevent gun violence. A recent report shows that Portland experienced a 51% decrease in homicides and a decline in other violent crimes this year. katu.com/news/local/a...

Civil procedure students puzzling over Rule 8: this is worth a read.

Cover page of the temporary restraining order

NEW: We just secured a temporary court order protecting the private information of millions of SNAP recipients from being used for the Trump Administration's inhumane immigration policies.

We'll keep fighting in court to protect our residents and uphold federal privacy laws.

BREAKING: Trump appointee Judge Tim Kelly GRANTS the plaintiffs motion for a preliminary injunction.

Kelly’s order bars removal of “unaccompanied Guatemalan children who have received neither a final removal order nor permission from the Attorney General to voluntarily depart…”

Oregon Moves to Make It Easier to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Andrew Schwartz

The state has authorized pharmacists in Oregon to administer Covid-19 vaccines without a prescription.

Parking spots used as colorful protest against Florida crackdown on rainbow crosswalks An Orlando restaurant owner has turned 49 parking spots outside her eatery into art spaces. This move is in response to a state mandate removing rainbow-colored crosswalks and other street art in Florida.

An Orlando restaurant owner has turned 49 parking spots outside her eatery into art spaces. This move is in response to a state mandate removing rainbow-colored crosswalks and other street art in Florida.