Gov. Newsom to sue Trump over sending California Guard to Oregon

Wendy Benjaminson, Bloomberg News on Oct 5, 2025

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California Governor Gavin Newsom said the White House, thwarted by a federal judge in its effort to deploy the Oregon National Guard to Portland, is calling up his state’s Guard troops instead.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request to confirm the deployment, but Newsom announced Sunday he was suing over the order.

“Despite a federal court order finding no legal basis to deploy state National Guard troops to the streets of Portland and ordering that control of the Oregon National Guard be returned to state command, the Trump administration is now sending 300 federally controlled members of the California National Guard to Portland to take their place,” Newsom said in a statement.

President Donald Trump last week ordered Oregon National Guard units to Portland, but U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, on Saturday blocked the order, saying that Trump’s description of “war-ravaged Portland” was “untethered to the facts.” The administration is appealing.

Trump also ordered National Guard troops to Illinois on a similar rationale, over the objections of Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, who called the move “un-American.”

The California National Guard was federalized in June for 90 days, when Trump first started using military troops to help combat what he claims is high crime and to protect federal agents carrying out his deportation actions. Trump was attempting to federalize the California Guard for another 90 days, according to the California Department of Justice.

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(With assistance from Catherine Lucey and Felipe Marques.)

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