Judge blocks National Guard deployment to Portland, Oregon
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
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A federal judge temporarily blocks President Donald Trump from deploying 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Monday, October 6th, 2025. This is USA Today's The Excerpt. |
| 0:15.3 | Today, a judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment in Oregon, plus a new Supreme Court term is here, |
| 0:20.9 | and how this administration wants control over agencies like the FCC. |
| 0:26.5 | A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from deploying 200 Oregon National |
| 0:31.4 | Guard troops to Portland in response to a lawsuit. The move blocks Trump from sending troops at |
| 0:36.1 | least until October 18th. The Trump |
| 0:38.7 | appointed U.S. District Judge stated there was no evidence that recent protests had escalated to the |
| 0:43.1 | level of a rebellion or seriously interfered with law enforcement. The White House said it would |
| 0:47.6 | appeal. In a late September post on Truth Social, Trump had said he directed Pete Hegeseth to provide |
| 0:52.6 | all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged |
| 0:55.3 | Portland and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic |
| 1:00.5 | terrorists. Lawyers from the Oregon Attorney General's office had told federal officials |
| 1:04.5 | that the Portland protests were small and sedate. |
| 1:15.5 | The Supreme Court launches a new term this week. I caught up with USA Today's Supreme Court correspondent, Maureen Gropi, for a look ahead. Maureen, thanks for joining me. Hey, thanks for |
| 1:20.5 | having me. So let's just start with President Trump's tariffs. How is the High Court set to tackle |
| 1:25.0 | issues around these in the coming months? The court's going to hear two challenges to the sweeping tariffs that the President has imposed. |
| 1:32.6 | Lower courts have said that Trump overstepped when he used a 1977 law to impose tariffs on imports from most of the world's countries. |
| 1:41.7 | He's the first president to try to use the law in that way, and tariffs are |
| 1:45.9 | the centerpiece of his economic agenda, as well as a major foreign policy tool for him. So it's |
| 1:51.5 | going to be a very big deal no matter what the court decides, whether it lets him be the first |
| 1:55.9 | president to impose tariffs in this way, even though it's Congress that generally has the power |
| 2:00.2 | to tax under the |
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