As President Trump tries to quell the violence epidemic in many of our major cities by sending in the National Guard, he’s getting major pushback from Democrat crime enablers in Oregon, Illinois, and California, among others. An Oregon judge issued two rulings over the weekend, ordering that Trump could not deploy forces from any state's Guard to Portland (the administration is appealing). Illinois filed its own lawsuit on Monday as well.
Trump’s statement on Monday will further set their hair on fire: he’s open to using the Insurrection Act of 1807 to counter their moves.
In an appearance in the Oval Office in the afternoon, Mr. Trump was asked under what circumstances he would exercise those emergency powers. Mr. Trump replied that “we have an Insurrection Act for a reason,” and “I’d do it if it were necessary, but so far it hasn’t been necessary.” He laid out a set of conditions that he said could justify invoking the act, including “if people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or mayors or governors were holding us up.”
…Mr. Trump has described Portland, Ore., one of the cities he has targeted for National Guard deployments, as “on fire for years,” adding “I think that’s all insurrection, really criminal insurrection.”
He did not fully commit to using the Act, however, adding: “If we don’t have to use it, I wouldn’t use it.”
Trump: “We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I’d do that.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 6, 2025
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has been holding nothing back and said all the lawfare and some of the various judges’ rulings amounted to “legal insurrection”:
His aide Stephen Miller referred to a judge’s order barring, for now, the deployment of National Guard troops in Portland over the objections of local officials as “legal insurrection.”
“There is an effort to delegitimize the core function of the federal government of enforcing our immigration laws and our sovereignty,” Miller said later in an interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez on Monday.
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The Insurrection Act was passed in 1807 and tweaked in 1871. It was last used by former President George H. W. Bush in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots at then-Governor Pete Wilson’s request.
There have been 30 prior invocations by presidents—see the full list here—including Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, who both used it against the will of the affected governors to force school integration after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
Trump JUST said he will invoke the Insurrection Act if Governors/Mayors refuse to enforce the law.
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) October 6, 2025
Well here is Illinois Governor, flanked by Chicago mayor, claiming they are going to drive ICE “thugs” out of Chicago.
This is an ACTUAL INSURRECTION!
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Democrats have let our cities turn into dangerous cesspools for far too long. They're proving yet again that fighting Trump is more important to them than keeping their residents safe.
This story has been updated for clarity.
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