Portland is again in the national news now that an Oregon U.S. District Judge has been asked to remove her second restraining order blocking federal control of any National Guard troops in Portland. In a 2-1 ruling on October 20th, a panel from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Trump administration. In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker take up the legal wrangling around deployment of Guard troops, the laws cited and opinions issued by various courts, and the implications of these cases for resistance to the Trump regime and federal mobilization of the military to control protests. They also discuss legal issues around tear gassing and pepper spraying of protestors at the ICE facility in Portland on the October 18th No Kings Day.
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