"In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he's removing the National Guard from those cities, although their deployment was already mostly limited by lower courts. We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact, he said."
"Despite the claim, the National Guard has been barred from taking direct part in law enforcement, which remains illegal under US law. Trump had not invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows presidents to deploy troops domestically when unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the federal government make it impracticable to enforce US law by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings."
President Trump announced he is ceasing efforts to deploy federal troops to several Democratic-led cities after a series of legal setbacks. Troops in Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago were largely limited by lower courts and were mainly assigned to guard federal buildings and support immigration enforcement. The National Guard remained barred from direct law enforcement because that remains illegal under US law. The Insurrection Act of 1807 was not invoked, so broader domestic troop deployments were not authorized. About 300 Guard members remained under federal control in Los Angeles and Chicago and 200 in Portland. Critics accused Trump of political theatre; Trump claimed crime declined due to the deployments.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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