President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if courts or local officials try to block his deployment of National Guard troops.
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President Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, saying he'd do it if necessary
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if courts or local officials try to block his deployment of National Guard troops
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The comment comes as Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker accused the administration Monday
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of staging a military-style invasion of Chicago. The state and the city filed a lawsuit Monday
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to block the federalization of the Illinois Guard. There is no invasion here. There is no insurrection here. And local and state law enforcement are on the job and managing what they need to
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Without my permission and against my vigorous objections, the president has federalized 300 Illinois National Guard military troops and hundreds of National Guard members from Texas
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Let me be clear Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation cities The Department of Homeland Security shot back calling Pritzker claims a smorgasbord of lies
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and saying he should, quote, get out of his mansion and see Chicago. If J.B. Pritzker actually walked
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the streets of his own city, he would see domestic terrorists and violent rioters attacking police
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officers and the scourge of violent crime as a direct result of his own policies. Later in the
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office, Trump described when he would actually invoke the insurrection act. We have an insurrection
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act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd do that. If people were being killed and courts were
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holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that. I mean, I want to make
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sure that people aren't killed. We have to make sure that our cities are safe. The insurrection
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act of 1807 allows the president to deploy the military for law enforcement purposes under
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limited circumstances. It was last used during the 1992 Los Angeles riots
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