A Trump-appointed federal judge dealt another blow to the president on Friday night by formally barring him from deploying National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon, to put down protests at the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut "acknowledged 'violent protests did occur in June,' but law enforcement were able to address them. 'Since that brief span of a few days in June, the protests outside the Portland ICE facility have been predominately peaceful, with only isolated and sporadic instances of relatively low-level violence, largely between protesters and counter-protesters,' the judge wrote in her 106-page order, 'this Court concludes that even giving great deference to the President’s determination, the President did not have a lawful basis to federalize the National Guard.'"

Immergut has ruled against President Donald Trump multiple times on this issue.

Initially, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit — also dominated by Trump appointees — stayed Immergut's decision, but the Ninth Circuit agreed to review the case en banc, vacating that stay for the time being.

This comes as Trump has moved to deploy federal forces around the country, both to enact mass immigration raids and to keep order amid protests rising up against them.

In addition to Portland, Chicago has become a massive focal point of the administration's enforcement efforts, leading to ongoing clashes with federal agents, state officials, and courts.

Federal prosecutors in Florida have begun targeting former key intelligence officials as part of a Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, sources told CNN.

Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are among those expected to receive subpoenas, along with ex-FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, reports say.

CNN’s Katelyn Polantz told Erin Burnett Friday night that the new action from Trump’s Department of Justice “is not done yet” and that “dozens of subpoenas” are going out to officials connected to the 2017 intelligence community assessment that summarized Russian efforts to interfere in the election and the Trump campaign’s contacts. Investigators are demanding documents from July 2016 to February 2017, including emails, texts and computer files, the network reported.

But, as Polantz noted: “There's some real head scratchers around this right now.”

“First of all, what they're asking for are very old records, federal criminal cases only usually are charged in a five-year window. This is stuff from almost 10 years ago,” she said.

The subpoenas were sent out from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida, which has jurisdiction over Mar-a-Lago. While CNN added that while the link between this probe and the original FBI investigation, known as “Crossfire Hurricane,” is not fully clear, Trump allies have argued the Justice Department can revisit the earlier probe as part of broader inquiries into Trump’s campaign, transition and subsequent actions, including the classified documents investigation.

The effort marks the latest chapter in nearly a decade of legal scrutiny surrounding Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made a masterful play with his offer to Republicans to end the shutdown, analyst Jason Johnson told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Friday's edition of "The Beat."

The offer includes one year of extending Affordable Care Act subsidies and a bipartisan commission to study longer-term health care reforms, in exchange for passing the GOP resolution to reopen the government and all the other mini-funding bills on the table. Republicans have immediately rejected this proposal — but in doing so, they just fell into a trap, Johnson argued.

"Democrats are telling the government and, really, the public, the new offer is if you'll just do a year of health care and we can deal with the debate later, we can reopen everything," said Melber. "Your view?"

"I mean, from a messaging standpoint, as cold as that may sound, it's a brilliant move by Chuck Schumer, and I don't think anyone has uttered that sentence in months," said Johnson.

"I mean, this puts this squarely on the shoulders of the Republican Party, that they're not willing to reopen the government just to fund health care for a year," Johnson continued. "It's literally kicking the can down the road until the midterm elections. But I think the deeper issue is this, this kind of economic disruption isn't going to be magically solved, even if the government were to reopen next week. You've got people who are behind in bills, you've got people who are going to start getting eviction notices. You've got people who can't pay tuition."

The bottom line, he added, is that "this is a crisis in the making and a crisis that's been ongoing by the Republican Party. The Democrats have a better idea, they have a better position, and Trump is leading his party to ruin."

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