Overview

• President Trump said he would invoke the Insurrection Act if people were killed or if courts, governors, or mayors blocked federal operations.
• A federal judge for the second time barred the stationing of soldiers in Portland, Oregon.
• Illinois filed suit challenging the announced National Guard deployment to Chicago.
• The administration has already sent National Guard units to Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis.
• Trump cites protests targeting ICE and what he describes as rising crime as the rationale, while the Insurrection Act would permit domestic military involvement in certain law-enforcement tasks and was last used in 1992 at California’s request.