The president said he would invoke emergency powers to deploy the National Guard if “people were being killed, and courts were holding us up.”

Trump said he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military into cities if courts block his deployment of National Guard troops.

The president threatened the use of emergency powers after a federal judge temporarily halted national guard deployment in Portland. Key US politics stories from 6 October at a…

President Donald Trump told reporters Monday he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act to send National Guard troops into Portland "if it was necessary."

The president said he would invoke emergency powers to deploy the National Guard if “people were being killed, and courts were holding us up.”