Trump has said: If a Governor can't do their job, we will... the Insurrection act has been used before
Legal battles erupt: President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities have prompted a series of legal showdowns. The president has said the deployments are aimed at fighting lawlessness and to aid ICE agents carrying out his sweeping immigration enforcement agenda.
• Illinois sues: Illinois and Chicago sued to stop the federalization of National Guard troops from their state and Texas. A federal judge did not block deployments for now but gave the administration until the end of the day tomorrow to explain why she shouldn’t do so.
• Trump appeals in Oregon: The White House has asked an appeals court to pause an order from a judge in Oregon that halts National Guard deployment to Portland.
• Trump debates using the Insurrection Act: Trump says he is considering invoking the act – which allows the deployment of troops in the US in certain limited situations – if courts keep blocking his deployments and violence in cities escalates. Democratic leaders have disputed his claims about rising violence and pointed to crime numbers being down in some places.
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GOP senator warns deploying national guard to blue states may not be “sustainable"
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis in Washington, DC, on June 30.Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis warned that the administration’s deployment of National Guard to blue states may not be a sustainable way to fight crime, and said that it would be an “overreach” for President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
“I get that President Trump wants to solve problems, and he likes solving them fast, but I just don’t think it’s sustainable. Nor do I think is it appropriate to let local leaders off the hooks, like the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois,” he said of the deployments.
He dismissed any talk of invoking the Insurrection Act. “I don’t think that makes sense. I think that’s an overreach,” said Tillis. “I don’t believe any — I’m not a historian, but I don’t believe any reasonable person thinks that that was ever the intent of the Insurrection Act. It was about possibly overwhelming our democracy here, this Capitol, I just don’t buy it.”