President Donald Trump will send 300 California National Guard soldiers to Portland despite a judge’s order that the Trump administration not deploy members to Oregon, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).
Newsom claimed on Sunday that Trump chose to go around a federal judge’s Saturday decision that the military not be sent to Portland to quell violent left-wing rioters outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility downtown and implored the public to fight “authoritarian” Trump.
“After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now,” Newsom wrote in a post to X on Sunday.
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“We are taking this fight back to court,” Newsom continued. “The public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.”
After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now.
We are taking this fight back to court.
The public cannot stay silent in the face…
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) October 5, 2025
The White House has not announced a plan to send the California Guard into Oregon, but Trump administration officials had vowed to do more to crack down on violence in Portland after a conservative independent reporter, Nick Sortor, was arrested by police in Portland last week.
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In a statement, Newsom said the decision to move hundreds of California personnel to Oregon on Saturday was “a breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”
On Saturday, Trump appointee U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut granted Oregon a temporary restraining order against the deployment of the Oregon National Guard. That ban is set to expire on Oct. 18.