(The Center Square) – Amnesty International, a human rights organization, condemned U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that have killed 57 people since September.
The federal government could be in contempt of court for defying a U.S. District Court judge’s order blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. U.S. Department of Justice attorney Jean Lin on Wednesday admitted to Judge Karin Immergut that Oregon National Guard troops were briefly sent to Portland despite Immergut’s order blocking such a deployment. The […]
(The Center Square) – The Pentagon said Tuesday that it carried out three military strikes on four suspected drug boats in the eastern Pacific, killing 14 people as the pace of strikes increases despite the administration saying previous strikes have stopped nearly all boat traffic in the region.
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump said the U.S. military could soon go after drug smuggling on land and would consider taking the matter to Congress, but said that last step wasn't required.
Three judges will decide “as quickly as possible,” they said, whether to uphold a temporary order barring President Donald Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland. U.S. Circuit Judges Susan Graber, Ryan Nelson and Bridget Bade heard oral arguments Thursday morning from the state of Oregon and the Trump administration in the 9th […]
The city of Portland, state leaders and hundreds of Oregon and California National Guard troops are in legal limbo as federal courts determine the legality of President Donald Trump’s unprecedented efforts to federalize and deploy Guard troops to U.S. cities. Trump and his administration have not as of Monday afternoon asked a federal appeals court […]
Saying the Trump administration directly contravened her Saturday order blocking the federal government from mobilizing National Guard troops in Portland, a federal judge issued a broader order barring the federal government from relocating National Guard members to Oregon from any state.
A federal judge is considering whether to temporarily block President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland following a challenge from the state and the city of Portland.
A federal judge is considering whether to temporarily block President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland following a challenge from the state and the city of Portland. Judge Karin Immergut of the U.S. District Court in Portland said she would make a decision either Friday or Saturday on whether […]
Demand from Oregon lawmakers follows Trump’s pledge to send troops to city with orders to use full military force
