Appeals Court Issues Ruling On If Trump Can Deploy The National guard To Protect ICE Facility

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Well, looks like the Ninth Circuit finally woke up and smelled the smoke bombs.

In a decision that shocked absolutely everyone who’s been paying attention to how far left the courts have drifted, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump was within his rights to deploy the Oregon National Guard to Portland to protect an ICE facility. You remember Portland, right? The city that looked like a Mad Max set for three straight months while officials held press conferences about “restorative justice” and gender-neutral riot gear.

For once, a court actually sided with… law and order. Imagine that.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson put it plainly: Trump was “exercising his lawful authority to protect federal assets and personnel following violent riots that local leaders have refused to address.” And she’s not wrong. Portland’s leadership made it painfully clear they’d rather negotiate with anarchists than lift a finger to stop the chaos.

But don’t get too comfortable. Because while this ruling is a rare W for sanity, the circus isn’t over yet.

Judge Ryan Nelson, a Trump appointee, spelled it out in his concurring opinion: the response from the federal government wasn’t just lawful — it was proportionate. A gentle reminder to anyone watching that what happened in Portland wasn’t a “peaceful protest” interrupted by a rogue leaf blower. It was a full-blown, Molotov-cocktail-hurling, windows-smashed, buildings-burned campaign of violence.

Still, predictably, the dissent came in hot. Senior Judge Susan Graber — a Clinton appointee, of course — unloaded a paragraph so drenched in snark and ideological fog it could’ve been printed on a protest sign. According to her, Portland’s protests were just some folks in chicken suits and inflatable frog costumes exercising their First Amendment rights.

Ah, yes, the noble tradition of nudity and arson in defense of civil liberties.

But Judge Graber wasn’t done. She accused the majority of eroding “core constitutional principles” by allowing the federal government to, you know, protect federal property from violent mobs. She wrapped her dissent in high-minded constitutionalism, but let’s not kid ourselves — what she really meant was that she doesn’t like Trump, doesn’t like ICE, and doesn’t want the feds messing with her team’s performance art.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, protests have raged on since June — not last month, not this week, since June. And while local officials were handing out press passes and vegan granola bars to rioters, federal agents were being pelted with debris for simply doing their jobs.

And let’s not forget Trump’s Truth Social message that lit up the digital landscape in September: “At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect war-ravaged Portland.” Now, whether you love Trump’s bombastic tone or not, here’s the thing — he was right. Portland was a war zone. Not metaphorically. Literally. Ask anyone who has tried walking through downtown after dark without a gas mask.

This ruling has major implications. Because if the Ninth Circuit — the same court that’s spent years torpedoing Trump’s policies — suddenly says “Yeah, the feds can intervene when anarchists are torching courthouses,” then maybe we’ve hit the limit of how much chaos the left can dress up as protest.

But don’t expect the left to take this lying down. Already, media outlets are wringing their hands about “militarization,” “federal overreach,” and — you guessed it — trans rights somehow being under threat. (Spoiler alert: they’re not.)

She’s a joke:

So yes, Trump got a win. Yes, the feds can now legally defend their own buildings when states won’t. But keep your eyes open. Because for every judge like Nelson who respects the rule of law, there’s another like Graber ready to turn a blind eye if the rioters are wearing the right colors.

And next time the mob shows up with torches, ask yourself — do you want federal agents there with shields, or judges offering hugs?

Because the left has already chosen.

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