"And by jury, we mean the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which must now decide whether it matters that the Department of Justice told a lie in defense of the president's raging whopper about hordes of ANTIFA laying waste to an immigration detention center in Portland, Oregon."
"The genesis of this conflict is fittingly ridiculous. In September, Homeland Security spokesliar Tricia McLaughlin went on Fox News to spew nonsense about poor, beleaguered ICE agents being attacked as they went about their noble task of kidnapping every brown person they can get their hands on. Fox backed up McLaughlin's pitch with B-roll from protests in Portland five years ago, which President Couch Potato decided was an accurate representation of the situation on the ground today."
The president claimed ANTIFA ravaged a Portland immigration detention center, prompting plans to federalize forces. A Homeland Security spokesperson made misleading claims on Fox News, amplified with old protest footage. The Department of Justice produced a legal justification that included a falsehood to defend the deployment. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals now must determine whether the DOJ lie matters given that courts previously accepted the larger presidential claim. Earlier litigation produced a temporary restraining order finding statutory preconditions for federalizing the National Guard were unmet, including no invasion or rebellion and adequate regular forces.
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