New York City joined 74 other localities in signing onto an amicus brief supporting Oregon’s case against the federal government for deploying the National Guard in Portland to control protests taking place there.
According to City Hall, the brief calls on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (which covers western states, including Oregon and California) to uphold a lower court’s ruling, issued on Sunday, barring the Trump administration from deploying troops to Portland. The federal district court is weighing the lower court’s ruling after the Trump administration appealed it.
