Trump threatens Insurrection Act amid National Guard troop deployments

President Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, saying he'd do it if necessary

if courts or local officials try to block his deployment of National Guard troops

The comment comes as Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker accused the administration Monday

of staging a military-style invasion of Chicago. The state and the city filed a lawsuit Monday

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

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

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

and saying he should, quote, get out of his mansion and see Chicago. If J.B. Pritzker actually walked

the streets of his own city, he would see domestic terrorists and violent rioters attacking police

officers and the scourge of violent crime as a direct result of his own policies. Later in the

office, Trump described when he would actually invoke the insurrection act. We have an insurrection

act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd do that. If people were being killed and courts were

holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that. I mean, I want to make

sure that people aren't killed. We have to make sure that our cities are safe. The insurrection

act of 1807 allows the president to deploy the military for law enforcement purposes under

limited circumstances. It was last used during the 1992 Los Angeles riots