47 brought up the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act while speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, and he claimed he'd go through with the invocation "if it was necessary," according to NBC News. Before that, it was used in a civil rights dispute in in 1957 in Arkansas, and prior to that, during the American Civil War and the subsequent Jim Crow Era. Trump made his comments just a day after a federal judge in Oregon blocked his administration from sending troops from the California and Texas National Guards to Portland ... that happened a day after the same judge denied his attempt federalize the state's own Oregon National Guard to be deployed in that city.
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Published at: 2025-10-07 21:48:25
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