Fight over troop deployment heats up

As use of National Guard is challenged, Trump lashes out at his own judicial pick.

- SONJA SHARP

U.S. DISTRICT Judge Karin Immergut has temporarily blocked the deployment of federalized troops.

President Trump has often locked horns with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, with the once left-leaning court putting a persistent drag on his first-term agenda.

And now, even after remaking the bench with his own appointees, the president is still tangling with the West Coast's federal appellate court — a situation poised to boil over as the circuit juggles multiple challenges to his use of the National Guard to police American streets.

“I appointed the judge and he goes like that — I wasn’t served well,” Trump told reporters Sunday, lashing out at U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut of Portland, Ore., after she temporarily blocked the deployment of federalized troops.

“To have a judge like that, that judge ought to be ashamed of himself,” Trump said, referring to Immergut, who is a woman.

The president has long railed against judges who rule against him, calling them "monsters," "deranged," and "radical" at various points in the past.

Trump has also occasionally sniped at conservative jurists, including U.S.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., whom he called "disgraceful" after the court rejected his bid to overturn the 2020 election.