Overview

• The Washington Post reports the Pentagon has drawn up plans to send several thousand National Guard members to Chicago as early as September, a move the Defense Department refused to confirm, saying it will not speculate on operations.
• President Donald Trump said Chicago would be next and that he would then help New York, and he later threatened to send troops to Baltimore as well.
• In Washington, more than 2,200 Guard reservists are now authorized to carry their service weapons under rules limiting force to last-resort use in response to an imminent threat of death or serious injury.
• The Washington deployment includes federal agents from the FBI, ICE and the DEA, and follows a June operation in Los Angeles that involved about 4,000 National Guard members and 700 active-duty Marines.
• Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Maryland Governor Wes Moore and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries argue the president lacks legal authority to impose such deployments, asserting governors control their Guard units under customary practice.