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California Governor Gavin Newsom stated on Sunday that he is filing a lawsuit against President Trump concerning the claimed deployment of 300 Californian national guard members to the state of Oregon.

“Those forces are heading there as we speak,” Newsom remarked in a press statement. “This administration is blatantly attacking the legal system directly and enacting their risky statements – defying legal directives and treating judges, even those appointed by the President himself, as political opponents.”

Judicial Background and National Decision

This planned court challenge is in response to a federal judge’s ruling that halted the federal government from sending the Oregon's guard to the city of Portland. US district judge Karin Immergut supported claims that it would intensify rather than reduce unrest in the urban area.

The judge said in her ruling, which postpones dispatching the troops until at least the 18th of October, that there was a lack of evidence that the current demonstrations in Portland justified the decision.

Local Authorities React

Caroline Turco, Portland’s senior deputy attorney, noted that there had been an absence of violent incidents against federal agents for months and that recent Ice protests were calm in the days before the chief executive declared the city to be a battlefield, occasionally featuring a small number of protesters.

“Public safety is not the real concern, it concerns authority,” Newsom said. “Legal action will be our response, but the citizens should speak out in the face of such irresponsible and authoritarian behavior by the nation's leader.”

Oregon Attorney General Comments

In a statement on social media, Dan Rayfield expressed that the government is evaluating choices and getting ready to file suit.

“The administration is evidently determined on sending the troops in U.S. urban centers, absent evidence or authority to do so,” he noted. “Our responsibility and the judicial system to hold him accountable. We are committed to this course.”

Federal and State Reaction

The guard's representatives directed inquiries to the defense department. A agency spokesman offered no response. There was silence from the presidential administration.

Broader Background

The news from Oregon came just a 24 hours after the President approved the dispatch of military personnel to Chicago, the most recent in a succession of similar actions across multiple US states.

Trump had initially revealed the initiative on 27 September, saying he was “authorizing full force, if necessary” despite requests from local leaders and the elected officials, who reported there had been a one, calm protest outside a federal agency location.

Past Context

Over a long period, Trump has promoted the storyline that the city is a “war-ravaged” city with activists involved in chaos and criminal acts.

In his initial presidency in 2020, he deployed national troops to the city amid the rallies over the killing by law enforcement of a citizen in another city. The unrest spread across the nation but were particularly intense in that city. Despite rallies against Ice being modest in size in the region this year, the President has cited them as a reason to deploy forces.

Remarking via social media about the recent action from Trump, the governor commented: “It is outrageous. It’s un-American, and it must be stopped.”