Appeals court pauses orders limiting federal agents' use of tear gas at protests near Portland ICE building

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., says he stands ‘with the frogs’ and ‘grassroots’ political change. An appeals court paused a pair of lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal agents' use of tear gas and other crowd-control munitions during protests outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted the Trump administration's request for temporary administrative stays in two cases in a 2-1 ruling. Anti-ICE demonstrators have held protests at the building since June, as part of protests across the country challenging President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. Two lawsuits were filed over federal agents' crowd control tactics — one brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon on behalf of protesters and freelance journalists and another brought by the r