Overview

• Trump has placed the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and deployed National Guard troops to the capital.
• He warned that cities such as Chicago could face the same intervention if they do not 'self clean up.'
• Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson have rejected the president’s authority, citing significant year-over-year declines in homicides and shootings in Chicago.
• Legal experts and a California lawsuit assert the deployments violate the Posse Comitatus Act and D.C. Home Rule provisions.
• Gov. Pritzker likened the threat of troop deployments to the Nazi Party’s swift takeover in the 1930s, even as some conservative figures urged federal intervention to tackle city crime.