Federal judge rejects Oregon's legal effort to put restrictions on federal agents there

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum sued the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Federal Protective Service — accusing them of arresting protesters without probable cause. This was when protestors said they were picked up and put into unmarked vans, held for hours, and not charged. They said they didn’t even know who was arresting them.

In his ruling, Judge Michael W. Mosman of the U.S. District Court in Portland said the attorney general’s office did not have standing to bring the case because it didn’t show that the issue was “an interest that is specific to the state itself.”

Also, the Trump administration published a new policy that allows single-sex homeless shelters to reject transgender people from places that correspond with their gender identity. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that transgener people are protected from employment discrimination.