Trump Action Archive

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• Judge Young issues 161-page ruling blocking deportations of pro-Palestinian activists — Judge William Young in Boston issued a scathing 161-page ruling last month finding that Trump administration efforts to deport non-citizen pro-Palestinian activists and academics violated their First Amendment rights and were conducted under an "unconstitutionally broad definition of antisemitism." Young, a Reagan appointee, concluded the deportations lacked due process and constituted a "full-throated assault on the first amendment."

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• Stephen Miller calls Immergut ruling "legal insurrection" — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller denounced Judge Immergut's ruling as "legal insurrection," using inflammatory language that analysts worry could incite violence against the judiciary.
• Trump attacks Judge Immergut and misidentifies her sex — After Judge Immergut's ruling blocking national guard deployment, Trump publicly attacked her, telling reporters "I wasn't served well by the people who pick judges" (despite having nominated her himself), and misidentified her sex, saying "That judge ought to be ashamed of himself." Trump falsely claimed Portland was "burning to the ground."

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• Trump administration petitions Supreme Court to override Chicago ruling — Following the Seventh Circuit's affirmation of Judge Perry's block on national guard deployment to Chicago, the Trump administration filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court requesting that the Court pause the lower court rulings and permit national guard deployment to Chicago streets.

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• Just Security documents 35 cases of government lying to federal judges — The nonpartisan law journal Just Security discovered more than 35 cases in which judges have stated that the government is lying to them. One judge warned that "trust that had been earned over generations has been lost in weeks."

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• U.S. District Judge James Boasberg orders halt to migrant deportation flights — After Venezuelan migrants sued, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg held a hearing and ordered that planes carrying migrants not leave and that any planes already in air be returned. The order was issued in response to the DOJ's plan to deport migrants without due process under the Alien Enemies Act.
• Trump administration defies federal court order on migrant deportations — More than five hours after Judge Boasberg's order halting the deportation flights, planes carrying Venezuelan migrants arrived at CECOT, a prison facility in El Salvador. The administration proceeded with the deportation despite the federal court's explicit order to halt the flights and return any planes already in air, constituting direct defiance of judicial authority.

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• Federal district judge Karin Immergut blocks Trump's deployment of Oregon National Guard to Portland and imposes second order prohibiting any National Guard deployment — Federal district judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, issued an initial injunction blocking Trump's effort to deploy Oregon National Guard troops to Portland, stating his contentions about Portland's atmosphere were "simply untethered to the facts." When Trump attempted to circumvent this order by deploying federalized California National Guard troops to Oregon instead, Immergut imposed a second order prohibiting the deployment of any National Guard troops to Portland. The lower court ruling was later lifted by the three-judge appellate panel on October 21.
• Judge Immergut rejects Trump's Portland emergency claims and blocks national guard deployment — Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump's plan to deploy national guard troops to Portland, rejecting the administration's characterization of the city as "war-ravaged" and finding the president's emergency determination "untethered to the facts." Immergut concluded the deployment violated constitutional limits on executive power and misrepresented conditions on the ground. A federal appeals court later reversed her ruling on October 20, permitting deployment.

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• Judge Perry blocks national guard deployment to Chicago; appeals court upholds — Judge April Perry in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order rejecting the Department of Homeland Security's characterization of Chicago as a "war zone" and blocking national guard deployment, finding DHS claims "simply unreliable" and lacking credibility. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Perry's ruling. The Trump administration subsequently petitioned the Supreme Court to pause the ruling and permit deployment.
• Chicago federal judge blocks national guard deployment pending case resolution — Federal District Judge April Perry on Wednesday blocked national guard deployment to the Chicago area until her court decides the case or the US Supreme Court intervenes. Perry had previously blocked the deployment for two weeks through a temporary restraining order. Federal government attorneys said they would agree to extend the order but would continue pressing for an emergency Supreme Court order to allow deployment.