Overview
- U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut holds a hearing Friday on whether to dissolve her second order that still blocks any National Guard deployment to Oregon.
- Justice Department lawyers argue the order should be lifted after a 9th Circuit panel said the president likely has authority to federalize Oregon's Guard, while the state seeks en banc review.
- Washington, Hawaii, and Nevada filed an amicus brief urging reconsideration of the panel decision, calling the planned federalization an unprecedented seizure of state control.
- Separate cases are being heard Friday over Guard operations in Washington, D.C., and in West Virginia, where a suit challenges the governor’s authority to send troops to the capital.
- In Chicago, a district judge kept deployment on hold as parties await potential emergency action from the U.S. Supreme Court.