Overview

• Texas National Guard troops arrived at an Army Reserve site in Elwood, Illinois, as the administration prepares a Chicago deployment opposed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson.
• Illinois and Chicago sued to halt the orders; a federal judge allowed the deployment to proceed for now and directed a government response by Wednesday, while a separate judge in Oregon temporarily blocked any troop deployments to police Portland.
• President Trump said he could invoke the Insurrection Act if governors or courts obstruct his plans and labeled Democrats “insurrectionists,” pointing to Chicago and Portland as justification.
• TIME and other outlets report legal experts say past uses of the Insurrection Act addressed far more extreme breakdowns of civil authority, and they expect any attempt to invoke it now to face immediate litigation.
• A federal judge previously ruled the Los Angeles deployment unlawful under the Posse Comitatus Act, and officials in Illinois and Oregon argue conditions do not warrant militarization or claims of insurrection.