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Trump says he'd consider invoking Insurrection Act as courts, governors seek to block his crime crackdown

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3 weeks ago

President Donald Trump said he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy federal troops in U.S. cities after a federal judge blocked his administration from sending National Guard units to Portland."I’d do it if it was necessary. So far it hasn’t been necessary. But we have an Insurrection Act for a reason," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. The 1807 law has not been invoked since the 1992 Los Angeles riots."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 m...

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