⏱️ Čas čítania: 2 min (372 slov) 📑 Obsah článku ↳ What Trump says ↳ Supreme Court’s decision ↳ Start your day with fact-based news. ↳ National Guard deployments ↳ What about the troops in D.C.? President Donald Trump is removing National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon. The move comes after a major setback in the […]
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President Donald Trump is removing National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon. The move comes after a major setback in the Supreme Court last week.
What Trump says
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the federal government’s stepping in “greatly reduced” crime in Chicago, L.A. and Portland and that those cities would be “gone” if the Guard had not been sent.
“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!” Trump said in the post.
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Supreme Court’s decision
The Supreme Court on Dec. 23 denied an emergency request from the Trump administration, which argued troops were necessary to protect federal agents working in Chicago to enforce immigration policy.
The court rejected the administration’s claim that circumstances in Illinois met the criteria for the president to invoke the Insurrection Act. The act is a federal law allowing him to call up the National Guard when “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”
“At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” the court said in its ruling.
While the decision only applied to Chicago, it likely would have strengthened other cities’ challenges to National Guard deployments.
National Guard deployments
Trump initially deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June amid fiery clashes between anti-immigration protesters and law enforcement. Then, in October, he sent 500 Guard members to Chicago and activated 200 troops for Portland. However, none were actively operating in either city because of the pending Supreme Court case.
In December, an appeals court ordered the Trump administration to return control of the California National Guard to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
What about the troops in D.C.?
Trump’s new order does not affect Washington, D.C., where troops have also been deployed, because it’s a federal district, not a state.
