Legal Feud Boils as Illinois and Oregon Accuse Trump of ‘Invasion’ - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Illinois and Oregon challenge federal troop deployments to protect state authority amid protests, with Illinois citing less than 8,000 residents in nearby Broadview, court filings show.
- On Monday, State of Illinois and City of Chicago filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the federalization of the Illinois National Guard and out-of-state troops, following a judge's block in Oregon.
- A Department of Defense memo shows the Trump administration federalized 200 Oregon National Guard members and authorized at least 300 Illinois National Guard troops.
- Local media reported federal officers arrested demonstrators during daytime protests at the Portland ICE facility and used tear gas and pepper balls.
- A U.S. military official said about 200 Texas National Guard troops were en route to Chicago, while courts scheduled rapid hearings and the administration sought an appeals pause.
- Civil liberties groups such as the ACLU warned that using military forces in cities raises constitutional federalism concerns, while Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Gov. J.B. Pritzker called the deployments unfair and political.
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Trump troop deployment to Oregon, Illinois intensifies confrontation with Democratic-led states
Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, and police, attempt to keep protesters back outside a downtown U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Oct. 4, 2025 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The White House slammed a President Donald Trump-appointed federal judge Monday for blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon, as hostilit…
Legal feud boils as Illinois and Oregon accuse Trump of ‘invasion’ - West Hawaii Today
CHICAGO — Officials in Illinois and Oregon stepped up efforts to block President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in the states’ cities, denouncing the effort as an attempted “invasion,” even as 200 soldiers from Texas were headed to Chicago.
Appeal of the Illinois and the city of the Midwest against the federal government. Governor Dem, Pritzker: "It is the invasion of Trump" . In Oregon a judge blocked the entry to Portland of the National Guard
Officials in Oregon and Illinois intensified efforts to block what they denounced as President Trump's "invasion" of their cities with National Guard troops, waging legal battles on multiple fronts on Monday, even as 200 Texas soldiers were headed to Chicago. Illinois officials sued Trump on Monday, a day after the president ordered hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers to deploy for "federal protection missions" in Chicago and Portland, Ore…
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