Overview

• Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, the president said he could invoke the Insurrection Act but prefers Illinois to request assistance, urging Gov. J.B. Pritzker to “beg for help.”
• Federal rulings have curtailed the Chicago operation by allowing federally controlled National Guard units to remain in-state while blocking street patrols and certain deployments.
• An emergency bid to undo a lower court’s restraining order was denied over the weekend, keeping the restrictions in place as appeals proceed.
• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott agreed to send Guard soldiers to Chicago at the president’s request, a move that drew pushback from some Republicans, including Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt.
• Barack Obama condemned the urban deployments as “inherently corrupting” and contrary to the Posse Comitatus Act, while Pritzker vowed to keep fighting the administration’s approach in court.