President Donald Trump said Monday he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act, a federal law allowing the use of military forces to restore order, though he emphasized it has not yet been necessary. “We have an Insurrection Act for a reason,” Trump told reporters. “If people were being killed and courts or governors were holding us up, sure, I’d do that.”
Trump’s remarks follow recent court challenges blocking his efforts to deploy National Guard troops from Texas and California to Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois, amid ongoing protests near ICE facilities. Federal judges in Oregon and Illinois have temporarily halted those deployments as lawsuits from multiple states move forward.
Trump said the deployments aim to enhance public safety, referencing past unrest in Portland and citing Washington, D.C.’s Guard activation as a successful model. The Insurrection Act, last used in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots, has been invoked 30 times since 1807.
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