Trump slams judge he appointed over Portland troop ruling
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Left: Donald Trump delivers a speech at the annual Road to Majority conference in Washington, DC, in June 2024 (Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP). Right: U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut (Stanford Law School).

President Donald Trump criticized a federal judge he had appointed during his first term after she temporarily prevented his administration from sending troops to Portland, stating she “ought to be ashamed” of herself.

“I wasn’t served well by the people that pick judges,” Trump told reporters with C-SPAN, PBS, and other outlets a day after U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued an order stopping the government’s plan to deploy troops in Oregon’s largest city.

Consistently misgendering Immergut, Trump stated, “I appointed the judge and he goes like that, so I wasn’t served well. Obviously, I don’t know the judge. But if he made that kind of a decision — Portland is burning to the ground. You have agitators, instigators, all you have to do is look at the television, turn on your television, read your newspapers. It’s burning to the ground. The governor, the mayor, the politicians, they’re petrified for their lives.”

Trump added, “That judge ought to be ashamed of himself.”

Immergut’s ruling came on Saturday after Trump sanctioned the mobilization of 200 National Guard troops in “war-ravaged” Portland to safeguard federal officers and assets amid protests against his administration and ICE enforcement. The Democratic-led city, alongside Chicago, has been criticized recently for what the government describes as “violent riots” by “Antifa and other domestic terrorists,” according to Immergut.

The state of Oregon initiated a lawsuit against the Trump administration last Sunday following the president’s announcement of deploying troops.

“From June 11th to June 25th, these protests included violent behavior and required an increased law enforcement presence by both the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) and federal law enforcement agencies,” Immergut wrote in her 31-page order.

“After June 25, 2025, however, the protests were generally peaceful in nature with only sporadic incidents of violence and disruptive behavior,” she said. “By late September, these protests typically involved twenty or fewer people.”

Immergut explained that the situation involves the “intersection of three of the most fundamental democratic principles in our constitutional democracy,” which she listed.

They include the relationship between the federal government and the states, the relationship between the military and domestic law enforcement, and the “proper role” of the judicial branch in ensuring that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative branch.

“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States,” Immergut said.

The Trump appointee described how the government is relying on “occurrences of violence elsewhere in the country and the risk that peaceful protests in Portland might escalate into violence” at any moment in its defense of the troop deployment.

“Violence in a different state and the mere potential for future escalation do not provide a colorable basis,” Immergut concluded. “The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday that he plans to sue the Trump administration after it said it would be sending 300 California National Guard members.

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