Appeals Court Issues Ruling On If Trump Can Deploy The National Guard To Protect ICE Facility

Well, looks like the Ninth Circuit finally woke up and smelled the smoke bombs.

In a decision that shocked absolutely everyone who’s been paying attention to how far left the courts have drifted, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump was within his rights to deploy the Oregon National Guard to Portland to protect an ICE facility. You remember Portland, right? The city that looked like a Mad Max set for three straight months while officials held press conferences about “restorative justice” and gender-neutral riot gear.

For once, a court actually sided with… law and order. Imagine that.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson put it plainly: Trump was “exercising his lawful authority to protect federal assets and personnel following violent riots that local leaders have refused to address.” And she’s not wrong. Portland’s leadership made it painfully clear they’d rather negotiate with anarchists than lift a finger to stop the chaos.

But don’t get too comfortable. Because while this ruling is a rare W for sanity, the circus isn’t over yet.

Judge Ryan Nelson, a Trump appointee, spelled it out in his concurring opinion: the response from the federal government wasn’t just lawful — it was proportionate. A gentle reminder to anyone watching that what happened in Portland wasn’t a “peaceful protest” interrupted by a rogue leaf blower. It was a full-blown, Molotov-cocktail-hurling, windows-smashed, buildings-burned campaign of violence.

Still, predictably, the dissent came in hot. Senior Judge Susan Graber — a Clinton appointee, of course — unloaded a paragraph so drenched in snark and ideological fog it could’ve been printed on a protest sign. According to her, Portland’s protests were just some folks in chicken suits and inflatable frog costumes exercising their First Amendment rights.

Ah, yes, the noble tradition of nudity and arson in defense of civil liberties.

But Judge Graber wasn’t done. She accused the majority of eroding “core constitutional principles” by allowing the federal government to, you know, protect federal property from violent mobs. She wrapped her dissent in high-minded constitutionalism, but let’s not kid ourselves — what she really meant was that she doesn’t like Trump, doesn’t like ICE, and doesn’t want the feds messing with her team’s performance art.