Name: Judge Denies Oregon's Request to Halt Federal Agents in Portland
Brand: courthousenews.com
SKU: courthousenews-com-43
Availability: OnlineOnly

critic

Judge Denies Oregon's Request to Halt Federal Agents in Portland

preview

(CN) — A federal judge on Friday denied the Oregon attorney general’s request to stop federal agents from arresting Portland protesters, as nightly protests against police violence continue in the state’s largest city.Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum last week sued the government and requested a temporary restraining order, asking the court to require federal officers to identify themselves, explain to any protester seized that they are being arrested and stop any arrests lacking probable cause.U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman, a George W. Bush appointee, denied the request, finding that the state lacked standing to sue.Mosman said the state did not provide sufficient evidence of harm being done to protesters, citing that Rosenblum only offered two examples of probable cases where civil rights violations occurred.“While the complaint paints a picture of numerous protesters being seized from the streets of Portland by unidentified agents, the State’s evidence in its brief and at the hearing consists of just two examples,” Mosman wrote in the .His decision comes one day after another federal judge against federal police in Portland, ordering them not to arrest journalists and legal observers there to witness the protests.The state argued that the arrests made by unidentified federal agents in unmarked vans could give anti-protesters the opportunity to kidnap protesters.Mosman scoffed at that claim, saying that the state offered no evidence of that happening.“I do not discount the animosity among these groups and had I been asked to assume that something would result in fistfights, or theft, or destruction of signs, or damage to vehicles, that would have made sense,” he wrote. “But the idea that seizures by law enforcement will lead to kidnappings by private parties is a bridge too far.”Rosenblum said Friday she was disappointed with the decision.“While I respect Judge Mosman, I would ask this question: If the state of Oregon does not have standing to prevent this unconstitutional conduct by unidentified federal agents running roughshod over her citizens, who does?” she said in a .“Individuals mistreated by these federal agents can sue for damages, but they can’t get a judge to restrain this unlawful conduct more generally. Today’s ruling suggests that there may be no recourse on behalf of our state, and if so that is extremely troubling.”President Donald Trump dispatched agents to Portland earlier this month, vowing to crack down on protesters he called “agitators.” Trump announced he would send more federal police to Democratic-led cities, as part of a new reelection strategy meant to emphasize “law and order.”bloggers like this:

(CN) — A federal judge on Friday denied the Oregon attorney general’s request to stop federal agents from arresting Portland protesters, as nightly protests against police violence continue in the state’s largest city.Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum last week sued the government and requested a temporary restraining order, asking the court to require federal officers to identify themselves, explain to any protester seized that they are being arrested and stop any arrests lacking probable cause.U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman, a George W. Bush appointee, denied the request, finding that...

public

JON PARTON

Courthouse News Service is a nationwide news service for lawyers and the news media. Based in Pasadena, California, Courthouse News focuses on civil litigation, from the date of filing through the appellate level. Unlike other Internet-based publishers that simply aggregate information prepared by other content providers, Courthouse News publishes its own original news content prepared by its staff of reporters and editors based across the country.

courthousenews.com

Credible

Speculation

Anecdotal Evidence

Generalization

Stacking the Deck

Appeal to Authority

Straw Man

Slippery Slope

Emotional Appeal

Red Herring

False Dilemma

Illogical

Moral Equivalency

Ad Hominem

Correlation w/o Causation

Semantics

Begging the Question

Faulty Analogy

Non Sequitur

Bandwagon

Dogmatism

Failing Occam's Razor

Biased

Pure Opinion

Hit Piece

Racial Bias

National Bias

Religious Bias

Financial Incentive

Political Agenda

Gender Bias

Misused Image/Video

Study Misinterpreted

Mistake

Misused Term

Science Misrepresented

Factual Error

Satire

Surface Level

Lack of Reliable Sources

Sensational

Not Credible

Investigative

Balanced

Well Sourced

Great Context

sports

entertainment

U.S.

international

business

technology

science

culture

politics

media

health

Judge Denies Oregon's Request to Halt Federal Agents in Portland

No article scores yet.

CRITIC REVIEWS

PUBLIC REVIEWS