After 3-Day Trial, Trump Appointee Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Blocking Guard from Portland

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Originally published at: After 3-Day Trial, Trump Appointee Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Blocking Guard from Portland - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Judge Karin Immergut handed down a preliminary injunction late Sunday night, keeping the National Guard out of Portland.  “Based on the trial testimony, this Court finds no credible evidence that during the approximately two months before the President’s federalization order, protests grew out of control or involved more than isolated and sporadic instances of violent…

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Sovereighnty is a very, very big issue. The Feds have supremacy but it isn’t unlimited.

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The new MAGAt marching orders are to find the RINO who recommended this judge to Trump and purge them from the party.

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Somebody’s very, very mad this morning. Yosemite Sam mad!

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the protests in Portland at the time of the National Guard call outs are likely not a ‘rebellion’

We know a rebellion when we see it. Portland is not a rebellion.

Now, Texas…   ; - )

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Texas Tough! LOL!

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The Trump “administration” is a rebellion. We need the National Guard in the Oval Office.

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And ICE personnel are domestic terrorists.

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Way too much hinges on some judge/justice’s view on when is ‘clearly, in no way at all, by any stretch of the imagination an emergency’ an emergency?

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Both Shay’s Rebellion and The Whiskey Rebellion -actual rebellions- are highlighted in her decision. Also, Marcy noted the number of times the word evidence appears in the decision.

Oregon

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We in Portland congratulate Judge Immergut on her devotion to the law, to the evidence and to reality. Lower court judges nationwide seem to be, on the whole, equally devoted to the same things. The corrupt radical majority of the Supreme Court, however, will now be looking hard for a way to allow the president (as long as the president is a Republican) to ignore the law, the evidence and reality.

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I’m not canceling the trip I’m planing on taking to Portland with my daughter to see one of her favorite musicians in concert this spring.

If there are troops, I’ll bring flowers to give them. Probably pansies.

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