Following back-to-back restraining orders blocking the president’s deployment of the National Guard to curb alleged “criminal insurrection,” a judge’s record further proved how recommendations failed the administration.
Leftist lawfare chalked up another win in the obstructionist column over the weekend when U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued two TROs preventing federalized National Guard members from being sent to Portland, Oregon, to aid in defending immigration enforcement officials from violent protesters.
As President Donald Trump himself called out how he “wasn’t served well” when Immergut had been suggested for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon during his first term, a closer look at responses during her confirmation hearing and a pivotal ruling since then revealed how the chief executive had been led astray.
Prior to her confirmation by voice vote in 2019, then-California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) had asked the nominee a few years before Roe v. Wade was overturned if it was “settled law,” to which Immergut responded “Yes.” She likewise agreed that Obergefell v. Hodges regarding same-sex civil unions was “settled law.”
In response to a question from then-California Sen. Kamala Harris (D) about her duties during Office of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation into President Bill Clinton, Immergut explained, “I was hired by Ken Starr almost five months after Attorney General [Janet] Reno sought to expand the OIC’s authority to investigate whether Monica Lewinsky or others suborned perjury, obstructed justice, or intimidated witnesses in connection with the civil sexual harassment case in Jones v. Clinton.”
“I was hired to work as a line prosecutor to determine whether there were facts to support or refute those allegations,” she added.
More recently, months after a law viewed as “blatantly unconstitutional” barely cleared the threshold for passage at the ballot box in the midterms, Immergut ruled in 2023 in a 122-page opinion that the banning of large ammunition magazines and the creation of a permit-to-purchase system was somehow not a violation of the Second Amendment based on the “Nation’s history and tradition of firearm regulation.”
As Trump himself had said after the judge issued restraining orders against the deployment of the National Guard to Portland, “I wasn’t served well if they put judges like that on. I wasn’t served well by the people that pick judges, I can tell you. Things like that, it’s too bad.”
“Obviously, if [Immergut] made that decision — Portland is burning to the ground. You have agitators, instigators … all you have to do is look at your television, turn on your television, read your newspapers,” the president went on. “It’s burning to the ground. The governor, the mayor, the politicians, they’re petrified for their lives. And that judge, [she] ought to be ashamed of [herself].”
Trump lambastes federal judge he appointed for blocking National Guard deployment to Portland https://t.co/dhKxjw14ui via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) October 6, 2025
Similarly, while the chief executive has yet to rule out using the Insurrection Act, White House Deputy Chief of staff Stephen Miller has his own criticism of Immergut, posting to X, “A district court judge has no conceivable authority, whatsoever, to restrict the President and Commander-in-Chief from dispatching members of the US military to defend federal lives and property.”
“Today’s judicial ruling is one of the most egregious and thunderous violations of constitutional order we have ever seen — and is yet the latest example of unceasing efforts to nullify the 2024 election by fiat,” he added.
ICE facilities are federal property conducting a federal mission of immigration enforcement that protects the lives and livelihoods of 300 million American citizens.
The President has undisputed authority under both statute and the Constitution to deploy troops, stationed in any…
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 6, 2025
Earlier in the year, after the U.S. Court of International Trade issued a ruling against his tariffs, Trump sounded off on The Federalist Society and, in particular, “sleazebag” former Vice President Leonard Leo for the recommendations that were made.
“In any event, Leo left The Federalist Society to do his own ‘thing.’ I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations,” the president said on Truth Social. “This is something that cannot be forgotten!”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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