Trump keeps National Guard control for now
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Legal scholars say Trump’s memo authorizing the deployment of National Guard and Marines may stretch presidential powers beyond their limits
Trump's National Guard deployment to Los Angeles and recent comments signal more sweeping executive actions are possible. Is the Insurrection Act one of them?
Trump was asked by ABC News if he's prepared to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to curb protests against his immigration crackdown in Los Angeles. His answer: "It depends."
President Trump issued a memo authorizing the National Guard to post up in Los Angeles, but California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called it "illegal."
The National Guard has at times detained protesters in its deployment to Los Angeles, an official said Wednesday, as demonstrations against Immigration and Customs enforcement raids spread to other major cities.
President Donald Trump has said he may invoke the Insurrection Act, a law that grants the ... other executive authorities to deploy 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, along with 700 ...
The National Guard was also called during the 1992 L.A. riots and the unrest that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. Trump’s order was unlike any other.