Donald Trump saw a legal loss on Saturday when a judge that the president himself appointed granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.
Kyle Cheney of Politico flagged the news on X over the weekend, writing, "Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were 'simply untethered to the facts.'"
Cheney added, "Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule."
Another journalist, Aaron Parnas, also released the news via Substack, writing that "another bombshell ruling just dropped."
"A federal judge in Oregon, nominated by Donald Trump, minutes ago issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deploying 200 National Guard troops to Portland," he wrote Saturday. "U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, a Trump appointee, granted the order after the state of Oregon and the city of Portland filed suit to stop the deployment."
Parnas then added, "The ruling temporarily prevents federal activation of the Oregon National Guard and expires on October 18, unless extended."