Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities

October 8, 2025 9:27 AM

Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities

Hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers gathered on Tuesday at an Army facility outside Chicago, as Donald Trump's threat to invoke an anti-insurrection law and deploy troops to more U.S. cities intensified the battle over the limits to his authority. The Republican president on Tuesday again left open the possibility that he might use the centuries-old Insurrection Act to sidestep any court rulings blocking the dispatch of Guard troops into Democratic-led cities, over the objections o...

Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities

October 7, 2025 10:52 PM

Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities

Donald Trump's threat to invoke a federal anti-insurrection law to expand his deployment of military personnel to U.S. cities has intensified his legal battle with Democratic-led cities over presidential authority, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas on Tuesday prepared to patrol the streets of Chicago. The president told reporters on Monday he would consider utilizing the Insurrection Act, a law enacted more than two centuries ago, to sidestep any court rulings restricting his orde...

Does U.S. law allow Trump to send troops to quell protests?

June 9, 2025 10:50 AM

Does U.S. law allow Trump to send troops to quell protests?

President Donald Trump has deployed National Guard troops to California after two days of protests by hundreds of demonstrators against immigration raids, saying that the protests interfered with federal law enforcement and framing them as a possible “form of rebellion” against the authority of the U.S. government. California Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday said he had formally requested that the Trump Administration rescind "its unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles County" and retu...