{"id":19270,"date":"2025-11-03T17:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=19270"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:17:46","slug":"die-erfundene-rebellion-wie-eine-bundesrichterin-trumps-portland-fantasien-zerschlaegt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-erfundene-rebellion-wie-eine-bundesrichterin-trumps-portland-fantasien-zerschlaegt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invented Rebellion - How a Federal Judge Shatters Trump's Portland Fantasies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland, Oregon \u2013 In a country that has grown accustomed to the constant rhetoric of chaos and unrest, a federal judge has silenced the noise. Karin Immergut, a judge appointed by Donald Trump himself, has prohibited the government from deploying the National Guard in Portland \u2013 at least for now. In her decision, she found \u201cno credible evidence\u201d that protests in the city had ever gotten out of control. This means a judge from Trump\u2019s own camp is openly opposing the president\u2019s narrative. For weeks, the White House had described Portland as a \u201cwar zone,\u201d as a city in flames that could only be subdued with military force. Immergut\u2019s ruling is the exact opposite: sober, precise, fact-based \u2013 and a blow against the political dramaturgy that thrives on fear and exaggeration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the links to our previous investigations and articles: \u201cThe Big Lie of Portland \u2013 How Fox News Feeds Trump and Turns a City into an Enemy Image\u201d under the link: https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-grosse-luege-von-portland-wie-fox-news-trump-fuettert-und-eine-stadt-zum-feindbild-macht\/<\/a> and the article: \u201cThe Big Lie of Portland II \u2013 Trump\u2019s Threat, Fox\u2019s Images, and the Truth on the Street\u201d under the link: https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-grosse-luege-von-portland-ii-trumps-drohung-fox-bilder-und-die-wahrheit-auf-der-strasse\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOf the apocalyptic images painted by the White House, nothing was to be found in Portland.\u201d<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the three-day trial brought by the city and the state of Oregon, the question was whether the nightly demonstrations outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building justified the use of the military. The government argued that it had to combat \u201crebellion\u201d and \u201cdanger of insurrection\u201d \u2013 two terms defined in federal law for domestic military deployment. Immergut disagrees. In a 16-page ruling, she wrote that the evidence showed no pattern of uncontrolled violence, but rather \u201cisolated and sporadic incidents.\u201d There had been no serious injuries, no destruction of federal buildings, no signs of an uprising. The alleged state of emergency that Trump had declared in the fall was \u201cnot supported by facts.\u201d The judge explicitly referred to the scope of the evidence: more than 750 exhibits and numerous witness statements. Due to the volume of material, she announced that she would issue a final order on Friday, November 7, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Until the publication of her final decision on the state of Oregon\u2019s request for a permanent injunction \u2013 no later than November 7, 2025, at 5 p.m. Pacific Time \u2013 Judge Karin J. Immergut temporarily prohibited Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from enforcing several orders federalizing and deploying National Guard units to Oregon. Affected were the memorandum of September 28, 2025, federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, the memorandum of October 5, 2025, deploying the Texas National Guard insofar as it would have been used in Oregon, and the memorandum of October 16, 2025, which would have transferred troops from the California and Texas National Guards to Oregon. All other orders based on the same legal grounds were also barred from implementation until further notice. At the same time, the court partially suspended the injunction \u2013 specifically, the part concerning the mere federalization of individual state guards \u2013 until the publication of the final decision on the merits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe violence and the aggression did not come from the demonstrators, but from state forces.\u201d<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Witnesses testified that the protests had significantly decreased since June. A senior official of the Federal Protective Service, identified in court only by his initials R.C. for security reasons, said he was \u201csurprised\u201d when he learned about the planned troop deployment. He had neither requested nor supported it. Another official admitted that the demonstrators had occasionally acted aggressively, but the city police had the situation under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Oregon and Portland, the ruling marks a turning point. Since Trump\u2019s second term, several Democratic-led cities \u2013 including Chicago and Seattle \u2013 have gone to court to challenge the militarization of public order. They all argue that the president has exceeded his constitutional powers and violated the sovereignty of the states. Immergut had already issued two similar orders in October 2025. At that time, she found that Trump had not met the legal requirements for mobilizing the National Guard. His descriptions of Portland as \u201cwar-ravaged\u201d and \u201cfires all over the place\u201d she described as \u201csimply untethered to the facts.\u201d A judge usually regarded as conservative thus exposed the rhetoric of her own president as a political fabrication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The court of appeals vacated its own panel ruling by en banc order; the deployment of the troops remains blocked until the main decision. Immergut allowed the mere federalization to stand temporarily but prohibited any deployment until November 7, 2025, 5:00 p.m. PT (Pacific Time). See our article \u201cCourt of Appeals Overturns Its Own Ruling on the Portland National Guard Deployment\u201d under the link: https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/berufungsgericht-kippt-sein-eigenes-urteil-zum-portland-einsatz-der-national-garde\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legal dispute is also a democratic test. It shows how thin the line has become between promises of security and the abuse of power. Federal Judge Immergut has made clear that the government is not fighting a \u201crebellion\u201d but citizens exercising their right to protest. In a time when political language feeds on exaggeration, this ruling reads like a document of reality. It is a reminder that justice is not an echo chamber for propaganda but a safeguard against it. Trump\u2019s administration can keep talking about uprisings \u2013 but in the courtroom, evidence, not headlines, prevails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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