Trump Troop Plan Stopped Again

BREAKING: Trump’s Portland troop plan just hit a Ninth Circuit wall — and this time, the whole court’s showing up.

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In a stunning move Tuesday night, a majority of 29 active judges on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to reopen the Oregon National Guard case for full review. That wipes out a smaller panel’s earlier ruling in Trump’s favor — and keeps his order to federalize Oregon’s Guard on ice.

READ MORE: The Oregonian (gift link)

At issue: whether a president can seize control of state Guard units and deploy them domestically without a governor’s consent. Trump claimed he could do so to “restore order” in Portland and protect a federal immigration facility. Oregon’s governor called that an abuse of power and won a lower-court order blocking it.

Now the biggest appeals court in the country is stepping in — all 29 judges, signaling the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Their decision to rehear the case “en banc” freezes any troop movement and sets up a constitutional showdown over state sovereignty and presidential reach.

Bottom line: Trump’s Guard plan isn’t marching anywhere. The Ninth Circuit just turned a legal skirmish into a full-blown war over who commands America’s citizen soldiers.

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Author: craigcrawford

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46 thoughts on “Trump Troop Plan Stopped Again”


  1. President Trump told U.S. troops he’s prepared to send “more than the National Guard” into America’s cities, the president’s tariffs have begun impacting the price of food staples like beef and bananas, and a squirrel named Chunkosaurus Rex was declared the winner of the inaugural Fat Squirrel Week in Texas.


  2. The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays last night in what turned into an 18 inning World Series game, Trump was in Japan where he got a tour and was walked around like a dog at the Westminster Dog Show, he held a rally on the USS Washington where he rambled to our troops on a range of topics including magnets and steam, we are on day 28 of his shutdown and some Republicans are not happy with their Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson, Team Trump has ordered the FBI to look for documents related to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, Jimmy once again challenges Trump to go up against Jasmine Crockett and AOC in a televised IQ test called “The James C. Kimmel Cognitive Aptitude and Mental Brilliance Invitational,” and we headed to our local Farmers Market asked some older folks hanging around to try on some popular new costumes and guess what it is they’re wearing.


  3. Desi Lydic breaks down Trump’s trip to Japan, which included a shockingly firm handshake from new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, decadent gifts to win the president’s heart, and a quick survey for the U.S. Navy about magnets. Plus, Troy Iwata is pretty sure Trump’s embarrassing antics in Tokyo are the worst things America has ever done to Japan.

  4. FYI on thread subject here’s a local news report 3 hours ago from *war ravaged Portland


    The fight over the federal deployment of troops in Portland is going to shift again

    *according to DJT

  5. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/

    Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities
    In a speech to American troops assembled in Japan on Tuesday, President Trump said he would escalate his orders to active-duty branches of the military if he decides it is appropriate.

    President Trump told American troops assembled in Japan on Tuesday that he was prepared to send “more than the National Guard” into cities to enforce his crackdowns on crime and immigration, further escalating how he has talked about using the military at home and abroad.
    Speaking to thousands of military service members aboard an aircraft carrier at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan on Tuesday, Mr. Trump delivered a partisan speech that resembled the raucous rallies that made him an ascendant force in U.S. politics.
    But throughout his nearly hourlong speech, his usual ramblings about the physical appearances of audience members and steam-powered catapults were laced with dark warnings about how he might choose to deploy military forces.
    “We have cities that are troubled, we can’t have cities that are troubled,” Mr. Trump said. “And we’re sending in our National Guard, and if we need more than the National Guard, we’ll send more than the National Guard, because we’re going to have safe cities.”
    Legal disputes over what troops under federal control may be used to do on domestic soil — like a bar on using them to enforce the law, except when there is an insurrection — treat National Guard troops under federal control and active-duty troops as the same.
    […]
    Mr. Trump has increasingly used speeches to the military to air his grievances and bolster his accomplishments. Still, the scene was striking: an American president defending war and military deployments on U.S. soil, and employing partisan talking points on the global stage.
    The president delivered his speech on the U.S.S. George Washington, an aircraft carrier docked south of Tokyo, at an American military base in Japan that was set up in the aftermath of World War II. It was an unsubtle show of force as Mr. Trump prepares to meet China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, this week, for talks that hold great stakes for the global economy.
    Mr. Trump has long sought to make greater use of the military on domestic soil. In his first term, especially during the 2020 “Black Lives Matter” protests that sometimes devolved into rioting, he was restrained by his advisers. In the 2024 campaign, he vowed to use the military to help crack down on immigration and deploy troops into Democratic-run cities.
    In June, Mr. Trump took federal control of the California National Guard and deployed it, along with active-duty Marines, into Los Angeles. He later deployed National Guard troops under federal control in Washington, and has been pushing to expand such deployments in cities like Chicago, Memphis and Portland, Ore.
    Local and state Democratic officials in California, Oregon and Illinois have objected to the deployments and filed a series of legal challenges in court, which are still working their way through the system. The issues turn in part on how much deference courts should show to Mr. Trump’s “determinations” as president that the local police cannot keep protests of his immigration crackdown under control, when local officials say troops are unnecessary.
    On Tuesday, he signaled that he was prepared to go further in deploying the military on American soil.
    “We’re not going to have people killed in our cities,” he said. “And whether people like that or not, that’s what we’re doing.”
    [continues]


  6. Democracy Action Network October 28, 2025
    In a world where the promise of safety often masks deeper societal fractures, President Trump’s recent declaration from a naval base in Japan reveals a startling contradiction: the very notion of security can become a weapon in the hands of power. As he threatened to send “more than the National Guard” to troubled cities, it begs the question—who defines trouble, and at what cost?Historically, the deployment of military forces within civilian contexts has often signaled a breakdown in trust between the government and its citizens. Consider the Kent State shootings in 1970, where the National Guard’s presence escalated tensions rather than alleviating them. Similarly, Trump’s actions echo a troubling pattern of using military might to address social issues, particularly in cities governed by Democratic mayors. The underlying message is clear: by framing these cities as “troubled,” the administration not only justifies military intervention but also reinforces a narrative that pits urban areas against the federal government.

  7. perchance a crack in the dam?

    https://www.theguardian.com/

    US Senate passes bill with Republican support to rescind Trump’s tariffs on Brazil
    Republicans break ranks as vote passes 52-48 in rare bipartisan rebuke of US president’s trade policies

    US Senate passes bill with Republican support to rescind Trump’s tariffs on Brazil
    Republicans break ranks as vote passes 52-48 in rare bipartisan rebuke of US president’s trade policies

    Lauren Gambino and Chris Stein in Washington
    Tue 28 Oct 2025 20.25 EDT
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    The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in a rare bipartisan show of opposition to the president’s trade war.

    The legislation passed in a 52-48 vote, with five Republicans – senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and the former Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky – joining all Democrats in favor. The vote took place on day 28 of the federal government shutdown with both sides at loggerheads over spending legislation.

    The resolution, led by Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat of Virginia, would overturn the national emergency that Trump has declared to justify the levies, though it is all but certain to stall in the US House, where the Republican-controlled chamber acted to pre-emptively shut down any attempt to block the president’s tariffs. In the unlikely event the measure were to reach the president’s desk, it would meet Trump’s veto.

    “Tariffs are a tax on American consumers. Tariffs are a tax on American businesses. And they are a tax that is imposed by a single person: Donald J Trump,” Kaine said in a floor speech.

    While Congressional Republicans have largely declined to rein in the president, Tuesday’s vote revealed an underlying discontent with Trump’s tariffs.

    “Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule,” Republican Mitch McConnell said in a statement on Tuesday. “And no cross-eyed reading of Reagan will reveal otherwise.”

    Paul, the sole Republican co-sponsor of the legislation, told reporters on Capitol Hill: “Emergencies are like war, famine, tornado. Not liking someone’s tariffs is not an emergency, it’s an abuse of the emergency power and it is Congress abdicating their traditional role in taxes.”
    [continues]

  8. Did y’all realize Louis DeJoy is gone & David Steiner became Post Master General in July?

    His background is in waste management.

  9. Tell Congress (if you call them, too) that they’ve lost the narrative on which party is responsible for the shutdown, loss of paychecks, food, healthcare, crop markets, tariffs wars, bombings of foreign nationals in international waters, extra-judicial kidnappings and disappearances by masked government goons, and illegal deployment of US troops on our streets. We know they have forsaken the folks in their states for the billionaires. They are on the wrong side of history and the window of democracy is closing for them to come to the good side.

    202-224-3121

  10. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson-gop-health-care-plan-aca_n_6900f1ece4b074fca21871a5

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday tore into her own party leader, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), for failing to produce a GOP health care plan that could replace the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans have been unsuccessfully trying to dismantle for years.

    “You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders,” the conservative firebrand wrote on X, taking a shot at Johnson for not keeping the House in session amid the shutdown.

    “I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans,” Greene said. “Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call.”

    “Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!” she added, referring to a room in which classified documents can be viewed.

    *So, she’s off of the EPSTEIN files (which she probably traded for Santos’ release), but she’s still on ACA.

    All Repugz have to do is increase ACA subsidies by the amount of inflation & call it tRUMPcare.
    Might help someone who isn’t white, though, so…

  11. “President Trump Just Secured a Big Win

    Soybeans are America’s largest agricultural export, and China has refused to purchase American soybeans, as well as other agricultural commodities such as sorghum, since May as a hardline negotiating tactic against the Trump Administration. China has done this because the President has dared to push back against unfair trade practices and imbalances by other nations for years.

    Thankfully, after years of being taken advantage of, we’re finally seeing the results of trade policy that puts our American producers first.

    President Trump, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer delivered a big win for America’s soybean farmers, successfully negotiating the purchase of three U.S. soybean cargoes by China’s state-owned COFCO.

    This purchase is a step in the right direction toward broader trade negotiations with China. President Trump is standing up for the United States and leveling the trade playing field across the globe.”

    *Another excerpt from today’s BS email from a Senator I just called.

    ps – I do believe Jerome Powell will be talking about the economy on YouTube and C-Span in a few minutes.

    Rehiring federal employees and doing away with the tRUMPsky tariffs and stopping the onslaught of AI from taking entry-level, white collar jobs will do more than an interest reduction.

  12. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/28/bovino-federal-judge-chicago-immigration-00625519

    U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, the face of “Operation Midway Blitz” cracking down on illegal immigration, must report daily to a federal judge after reports of combative enforcement, including using tear gas.
    Bovino appeared Tuesday for a tense hearing before U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago. She questioned him about reports of aggressive immigration enforcement and the federal agents’ treatment of protesters, journalists and even children during the ongoing “immigration blitz.”

    *Bovino even has the n&zi hairdo. Bovino, Bovino, hmmm. That doesn’t sound “American.”

  13. https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/27/who-is-gregory-bovino-border-patrol-chicago-midway-blitz

    Her two-sentence order simply set the time for the hearing and said the Trump administration should “produce Defendant Gregory Bovino, in person, for this hearing.”

    The judge has also ordered Bovino to sit for up to five hours for an under-oath deposition with lawyers in the case, a proceeding that’s separate from Tuesday’s hearing.

    Ellis is a native of Ontario, Canada, nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama in 2013. Before becoming a judge, she also worked as a staff attorney in the Federal Defender Program and as assistant corporation counsel in Chicago City Hall from 2004 to 2008.

    Ellis has shown increasing frustration with the feds’ tactics during “Operation Midway Blitz.” Earlier this month she ordered lower-ranking officials into her courtroom to answer questions, telling lawyers in the case, “I’m not blind,” and citing media reports about the use of tear gas around Chicago.

    *Oof, a Canadian-born judge, and and Obama appointee. Be prepared for denaturalization and deportation.

    But look at those masked idiots standing by Bovino. They all get paychecks and they all have SS #s ( 😉 ) that will tie them to their human rights violations. There’s a trail to their trials.

  14. from today’s Trail Mix Live Chat…
    DOJ admits it filed false evidence to justify Trump’s National Guard plan in Portland.
    Trial now shows the “Portland is burning” claim was built on bad data.

    Watch the full story in our National Guard Files playlist →

  15. WATCH: Mike Waltz Cut Off During Speech Trashing Cuba in Wild Moment on UN Floor

    At the UN today, U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz said he would “correct the fake news” about Cuba – then unleashed a barrage of it himself.

    Waltz was then interrupted when it was announced a representative from Cuba had requested a point of order. That’s when Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla called Waltz “uncivilized” and “crude” while also taking a dig at the infamous Signal chat scandal. Translated from Spanish, the Cuban representative said:

    “The permanent representative of the United States not only lies by substantially deviating from the topic, but also speaks in a rude and arrogant manner against your Presidency, against the dignity of this Assembly and the Member States. He does so with uncivilized, crude, and coarse behavior that is not acceptable in this distinguished and democratic forum. Mr. Waltz, this is the United Nations General Assembly. This is not a Signal chat, nor is it the House of Representatives.”

  16. Craig – I do believe it was determined that someone (perhaps Fox Noise) was airing footage from Portland in 2020, after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis by police officers, and BLM protests were probably met with some agitators.

    tRUMP is a buffoon who believes TV is real. The world is reality TV to his mushy mind. That’s not dementia, that’s just his lifelong stupidity. The dementia adds a layer of fresh hell for the world because he has so much power (or those controlling him do).

    He is a stupid and terrible person, surrounded by some smarter and very terrible people.

  17. Since MAGAt Mike refuses to reopen the House this year, is there a way we can claw back the salary for Republican Reps who are not working?

    Dems (how many?) have been in town, talking to constituents, and even giving tours.

    Since we don’t have a functioning government, since the tRUMP administration is illegitimate since it has not upheld the US Constitution, is it time for the military to get things in hand?

  18. December Fed Rate Cut Still Likely, Despite Powell Pushback; S&P 500 Wavers

    The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate and said it will stop shrinking its balance sheet, taking two steps to ease restrictive policy.

    Odds of a Dec. 10 rate cut fell to 60% from 90.5% on Tuesday, as markets reacted to Powell’s strongly worded statement that a further cut was “far from” a sure thing.

    The U.S. dollar index crested 99, a level it’s rarely seen since May, while the 10-year Treasury yield rose nine basis points to 4.07%.

    The reaction suggests that today’s Fed rate cut was what Wall Street calls a hawkish cut.

    Yet Powell’s talk about big-company layoffs and lower inflation risk suggest that the Fed’s bias toward more cuts is firmly in place.

    Asked about layoffs announced by Amazon (AMZN) and other companies, Powell said the Fed has taken note of companies saying they’re not going to be doing much hiring or announcing layoffs. The announcements frequently relate to AI, he said.

    *Some of the numbers Powell gave do not jive with other things I’ve read, like inflation being low. Also, those ~helpful~ tariffs are causing pain in lack of markets for US goods and higher prices being paid by consumers. He didn’t even mention federal employees being furloughed? There will be no Christmas this year, because tRUMP killed it. If folks are good, housing, and healthcare insecure, they aren’t going to buy stuff that will also be more expensive because of tariffs.

  19. time for the military to get things in hand?

    Which ones, the ones that are MAGA or the ones who don’t rock the boat?

  20. Well, something is going to hit the fan now that they are employing withholding good from folks.

    This is just the first month of it. It will continue and food bank donations will go down as those donating feel stretched.

    Withholding food is something that happens in war, like in Gaza. No need to wonder why Israel and the US are the only countries to vote against a UN resolution that food is a human right.

    It’s easier to control folks who are hungry…unless they are armed and angry.

  21. i admire your optimism

    top 1% control so much wealth it’s inconceivable. It’s like trying to understand how big the universe is.

    Add that to a population that’s happy to be for sale

    oh, and we put the foxes in charge of the henhouse

  22. I am seeing more posts about setting up free food stands, similar to free library. Very nice. Shelf stable foods. Most people do not know there is shelf stable milk that can be stored. I am suggesting that people put shelf stable milk and packets of powered milk in the donations. Cereal tastes better with milk. Baking is better with powdered milk. Bechamel sauce/White sauce and sausage gravy all can be made using powdered milk.

  23. oh, and Gen Alpha is a bunch of status chasing idiots that were educated by YouTube and raised by TikTok

  24. america’s greatest competitive advantages are a rabid penchant for over-consumption and nukes

    That should work out well

  25. we just had a 10 year residential construction boom, and none of it facilitates a public transportation infrastructure

    the new American way is to insulate yourself from your community as much as your wealth affords

  26. the multi-million and billionaires must laugh themselves to sleep every night at how easy it was

  27. AARP: “…we were just served COLA with a side of threats: On Friday, Social Security announced its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which helps older Americans keep up with inflation. Meanwhile, DC “experts” gathered this week with a ridiculous idea: capping the COLA for 1 out of 4 people who receive Social Security.

    These experts also want to base your Social Security check only on the number of years you work rather than your earnings over a lifetime. And they suggested giving a small, hand-picked, commission of lawmakers decision making power over our hard-earned Social Security, behind closed doors.”

  28. If you are federal employee:

    In NYC from a borough President’s email:

    “The Hebrew Free Loan Society (HFLS) in partnership with our office has launched its Federal Employee Loan Program, offering interest-free loans with no cost to the borrower of up to $7,500 for low- and moderate-income federal workers. Borrowers will not begin repayment until four weeks after the government reopens.”

    Also, resources for good banks.

    Are we great yet?

    Nobody believes the Republican narrative about the shutdown nor anything else, including those spewing it.

  29. https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/fed-meeting-october-interest-rate-announcement/card/why-the-fed-may-stop-shrinking-its-balance-sheet-sooner-than-expected-o7397nPazO6wOlC6qXZB

    The current round of quantitative tightening started in June 2022 to reverse the enormous growth in the Fed’s balance sheet during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, the Fed has let over $2 trillion in bonds mature without buying different ones to replace them, pulling money out of the financial system.

    But now there are warning signs. The Secured Overnight Financing Rate, a key interest rate for short-term borrowing, has occasionally jumped above both the Interest on Reserve Balances rate and the effective federal funds rate. This is a classic signal that bank reserves are running low.

    *It’s time to start printing money!

    On top of that, banks have been using a Fed emergency lending tool called the Standing Repo Facility more frequently. Meant to provide backup cash, it is being used at levels not seen outside of quarter-end periods since the pandemic.

    “These are red flags the Fed cannot ignore, creating the risk of a repeat of the 2019 repo crisis when overnight lending markets seized up,” wrote Kevin Ford, a strategist at Convera, in a recent note.

  30. INFO SCRUBBED FROM GOV’T WEBSITE:
    Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP):OMB’s General Counsel provided a letter to USDA on May 23, 2025 stating that there is a bona fide need to obligate benefits for October – the first month of the fiscal year – during or prior to the month of September, thereby guaranteeing that benefit funds are available for program operations even in the event of a government shutdown at the
    beginning of a fiscal year. In addition, Congressional intent is evident that SNAP’s operations should continue since the program has been provided with multi-year contingency funds that can be used for State Administrative Expenses to ensure that the State can also continue operations during a Federal Government shutdown. These multi-year contingency funds are also available to fund participant benefits in the event that a lapse occurs in the middle of the fiscal year. To fulfill this Congressional intent, it is necessary that a limited number of FNS employees be excepted from furlough to support program operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, program policy and operations, financial management, and stakeholder communications.

    “LET’S BE CLEAR: THERE’S FUNDING AVAILABLE TO COVER SNAP BENEFITS NEXT MONTH. TRUMP IS STOPPING SNAP BENEFITS BECAUSE HE WANTS TO.
    HE IS FORCING MOMMAS AND BABIES TO GO HUNGRY.”
    — SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN

    “Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow just exposed the Trump administration for deleting language from federal websites that exposes how the President could fund SNAP benefits even during a government shutdown.

    There is a reserve with more than $5 billion to keep the supplemental food program running. The Trump administration has refused to release that money hoping that the American people will blame Democrats instead.”

    *Everyone is blaming Republicans. Nobody is taking the MAGAt bait. The billionaires should probably seal themselves up in their bunkers soon…and hopefully their security team locks them in so they never see sky, again.

  31. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/29/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-testing-united-states/86975833007/

    Trump instructs Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing US nuclear weapons

    “Because of other countries [sic] testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump said.

    The move seemingly signals an abrupt end to a 33-year period during which the United States did not test any nuclear weapons. The moratorium on nuclear detonations was put in place by former President George H.W. Bush, and the United States signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1996. The Senate voted against ratifying the treaty.

    While China and Russia have renovated their historical nuclear test sites in recent years, only North Korea has detonated nuclear weapons since 1998.

    It was not immediately clear from Trump’s post whether the United States would fire a nuclear warhead before Russia or China does. All three countries — and other nuclear weapons states — routinely test their nuclear delivery platforms: Russia tested a new nuclear-powered cruise missile and a nuclear torpedo in recent days, and the United States test-launched a Minuteman III nuclear missile in May.

  32. lol more depressing than anything I posted today

    😬

    that we don’t need to test them is the show of strength

    FACEPALM EMOJI

    WaPo editorial board racing to justify it

  33. An ICE agent shot at a man during a traffic stop on Interstate 17

    ICE claims that as Garcia-Sorto began to speed away, an ICE agent was in his path. The agent — whom ICE has not identified — “fear(ed) for his life” and “defensively discharged his service weapon two times, striking Garcia-Sorto’s vehicle,” according to ICE’s statement. The statement blamed their incident on “dishonest politicians” and “activists who urge illegal aliens to resist arrest.”

    Photos from the scene show damage to the driver’s side window of Garcia-Sorto’s car but none to the windshield, as would be expected if Garcia-Sorto was driving directly at the ICE agent who fired. It’s unclear if there was other damage to the vehicle. ICE did not answer a question from New Times about whether the damage to the car’s window was from a bullet or from something else.

    *ICE has been caught lying do many times.

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