The Trump administration urged the judge to allow the National Guard in Portland

The Trump administration asked a federal judge during a hearing in Oregon on Friday to end the restraining order and clear the way for the government to deploy. National Guard Army in Portland.

The administration argued to Judge Karin Immergut that the high court had already given a green light to President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard. Trump appointee Emmergut said it would decide whether to issue its order by Monday.

“(I) will work as quickly as possible to make a decision that honors the 9th Circuit’s decision but also takes into account some of the new arguments and new information provided,” Immergut said.

Big win for Trump in National Guard case, but court battle far from over

12 Oct. 2025 Federal agents clash with anti-ICE protesters at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Oregon. (Matthew Lewis-Roland/Getty Images)

The Trump administration has blocked the deployment of reserve troops to support the president’s law enforcement crackdown in Portland, a liberal haven claimed by illegal immigrants, street crime and threats to federal law enforcement.

“I looked at Portland over the weekend, the place was burning, just burning,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office this week.

Emergut hearing only a A string of conflicts On the division of law enforcement powers between local democratic leaders and the President. The president has claimed he is authorized to deploy National Guard troops to cities to support federal immigration enforcement officials, while many blue states and cities claim Trump is misrepresenting crime and unrest levels and that the military reinforcements are unwanted and encroach on their sovereignty.

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the signing of an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)

A lawyer arguing on behalf of Oregon told Emmergut on Friday that Trump’s effort to deploy 200 National Guard troops from other states to Portland has “no justification whatsoever.”

The lawyer called it a “grossly disproportionate response to the situation”.

The court saga in Oregon began when Emmergut issued two back-to-back restraining orders barring Trump from deploying California National Guard troops to Portland and Trump from deploying any National Guard troops to Portland, respectively.

The government appealed the first order, and a 9th Circuit panel ruled in Trump’s favor this week in a 2-1 decision. But a full bench of judges may now reconsider that decision, and Emmergut’s second order also stands, meaning Trump cannot deploy the National Guard to Oregon for now.

A Justice Department lawyer said the 9th Circuit panel’s decision to stay Emmergut’s first order meant that both of her orders “rose and fell together.”

“I just don’t know that there’s any way around it,” the lawyer said.

12 Oct. 2025 Federal agents clash with anti-ICE protesters at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Oregon. (Matthew Lewis-Roland/Getty Images)

The 9th Circuit panel found that Trump is likely to succeed in his case as it moves through the courts, and also accused Emmergut of undermining months of violence and disruption in Portland over the summer.

Regardless of what Emergut does with the rest of her active restraining order, the court fight isn’t over since the court’s existing orders are all on an emergency basis.

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A similar question is pending about Trump’s use of the National Guard in Illinois Supreme Court.

In Oregon, Emergut is conducting a small trial next week to explore more long-term use of Trump’s National Guard in that state.

Fox News Lee Ross contributed.