White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller declared Saturday that a judge blocking President Donald Trump from mobilizing troops to Portland was a “legal insurrection.”
“The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge,” Miller wrote Saturday on social media. “Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.”
Trump announced last week he would deploy the National Guard to Portland to handle “domestic terrorists.” But on Saturday, after state and local officials sued to stop the deployment, a federal judge in Oregon blocked it, writing in her decision that the small protests that have popped up in Portland did not justify the deployment of the National Guard.
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