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BumRushDaShow

(161,505 posts)
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 10:36 AM Sunday

Miller on judge blocking Portland National Guard deployment: 'Legal insurrection'

Source: The Hill

10/04/25 11:10 PM ET


White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller railed against a Saturday ruling that temporarily blocked President Trump’s attempts to deploy 200 National Guard soldiers to Portland, Ore. “Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge … ,” Miller, an architect of many Trump administration immigration policies, wrote in a Saturday statement on the social platform X.

He accused local law enforcement of failing to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers facing “relentless terrorist assault.” “This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself,” he added in the weekend post.

Hours prior, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, said there was ultimately no need for troops in Portland, siding with the state’s argument that the president’s attempt to deploy soldiers was “based largely on a fictional narrative” about public safety in the city.

In her Saturday ruling, Immergut agreed that the president is “certainly entitled” to a great level of deference but said that is not equivalent to “ignoring the facts on the ground.” “The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts,” the judge wrote.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5539238-miller-portland-troops-deployment/

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Miller on judge blocking Portland National Guard deployment: 'Legal insurrection' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP
Is Miller threatening violence liberalgunwilltravel Sunday #1
Isn't there a death camp somewhere in the world he could be the commandant of? Vinca Sunday #2
Not a secret: the Constitution means NOTHING to fascists William Seger Sunday #3
Trump is "untethered to the facts". sheshe2 Sunday #4
Every accusation is a confession usonian Sunday #5
We should be posting that miller and his overreach is what's dragging down tacos poll numbers PortTack Sunday #6
Great idea -- and likely true. nt in2herbs Sunday #17
Miller is the sort of raging psychopath... GiqueCee Sunday #7
Send Stephen Miller to Portland, alone, let residents show him what they think of him. CaptainTruth Sunday #8
And after his limp performance there...taco can fire him as the root of all his poor polling PortTack Sunday #9
Untethered to the facts is Trump's permanent residence surfered Sunday #10
Aw the big bad Icers are all scared of marauding antifers. Man up boys. flashman13 Sunday #11
"The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge..." OldBaldy1701E Sunday #12
Wow! Who knew how terrifying a giant frog was. Biophilic Sunday #13
I thought reversing Roe was "Legal Insurrection" JustABozoOnThisBus Sunday #14
Miller needs to learn why the framers of the Constitution gave us a 2nd Amendment... AntiFascist Sunday #15
Stephen Miller is freaking out LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #16
Stevie belongs in a psych ward. n/t moondust Sunday #18
As opposed to your illegal insurrection, Stevy Wonderabout? Wonder Why Sunday #19
1. Is Miller threatening violence
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 10:43 AM
Sunday

Against a federal judge? Arrest him, ball gag him, and throw him in a pit of vipers. Oh, wait, that’s where he works.

William Seger

(11,875 posts)
3. Not a secret: the Constitution means NOTHING to fascists
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 11:03 AM
Sunday

Like the Bible, they just ignore the parts they don't like.

PortTack

(35,765 posts)
6. We should be posting that miller and his overreach is what's dragging down tacos poll numbers
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 11:47 AM
Sunday

Sow as much suspicion in taco’s pee wee paranoid brain that he needs to get rid of miller.

GiqueCee

(2,891 posts)
7. Miller is the sort of raging psychopath...
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 12:08 PM
Sunday

... who has never been able to comprehend the concept of filters. His diseased brain is incapable of moderating his speech so that his inherently evil nature is masked at least a little bit. He is a balls-to-the-wall, no holds barred Charles Manson wannabe who has had wet dreams of controlling an army of like-minded monsters, and has finally created them with ICE. He is the very embodiment of the distilled essence of conservatism: Unbridled malice and mind-numbing depravity unleashed to try to satisfy the GOP's gluttonous craving for total dominion over the lives of others by any and all means necessary, up to, and including, handcuffing naked children in the middle of a cold night and detaining them outside for hours. But that's just the most recent example. The list is long. VERY long.
Even Satan would say, "Oh, come ON, guys! Really?" These evil motherfuckers just laugh. THIS is Republicanism stripped bare for all the world to see.
Are we great yet?

PortTack

(35,765 posts)
9. And after his limp performance there...taco can fire him as the root of all his poor polling
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 12:44 PM
Sunday

flashman13

(1,625 posts)
11. Aw the big bad Icers are all scared of marauding antifers. Man up boys.
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 01:37 PM
Sunday

I saw the attack of the giant green frog. IT WAS TERRIFYING!

OldBaldy1701E

(9,296 posts)
12. "The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge..."
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 01:39 PM
Sunday

Yes, he is.

What he isn't is a tin pot dictator who thinks he can attack civilians and deport whomever he pleases... and, neither are you, you insufferable douche.

OH, and my official response to the ruling...?

Biophilic

(6,148 posts)
13. Wow! Who knew how terrifying a giant frog was.
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 01:40 PM
Sunday

I mean, you just can’t imagine how destructive they can be. Poor, terrified, little Stephen.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,402 posts)
14. I thought reversing Roe was "Legal Insurrection"
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 02:15 PM
Sunday

Maybe it's only a bad thing if it goes against Trump and his henchmen.

AntiFascist

(13,680 posts)
15. Miller needs to learn why the framers of the Constitution gave us a 2nd Amendment...
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 02:24 PM
Sunday

to allow States to resist exactly what is happening, illegally, in Oregon.

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