It has now been one year since President Trump declared a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital and deployed thousands of members of the National Guard to its streets. Questions continue to mount ...

It’s now clear that the deployment was never meant to be a quick response to an immediate crisis.

The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.

It’s now clear that the deployment was never meant to be a quick response to an immediate crisis.

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Vague, open-ended, and constitutionally questionable laws give governors dangerous discretion to decide when, where, and how to use troops.  

This lawsuit challenges Governor Bill Lee’s unlawful activation and deployment of the Tennessee National Guard as a police force at President Trump’s request.

The concept has never been well understood. What should be clear, however, is that the president lacks the authority to declare it.

The statute provides the National Guard with more flexibility—but the use of unfederalized troops for operational missions has its limits.

The law generally prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.

Vague, open-ended, and constitutionally questionable laws give governors dangerous discretion to decide when, where, and how to use troops.

Significant exceptions and loopholes, along with a lack of enforcement mechanisms, undermine the law that prevents military involvement in law enforcement.

The president can't legally apply his D.C. playbook to Chicago.

Antiquated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home to quash protests and order mass arrests in times of war and domestic upheaval.