Trump considers Insurrection Act after judge blocks Guard deployment

President Donald Trump said he would consider summoning the rebellion law to deploy federal forces in American cities after a federal judge prevented his administration from sending the National Guard units to Portland.

“I will do so if that is necessary. So far it was not necessary. But we have a rebellion for some reason,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday.

Law 1807 has not been called since the riots in Los Angeles 1992.

He added: “If you have to his age, I will do that. If people were killed and that the courts were holding us or the conservatives or mayors of municipalities hold us, for sure, I will do that. I mean, I want to make sure that people are not killing. We have to make sure that our cities are safe.”

What is the rebellion law?

The president is allowed to deploy the army to suppress the rebellions and impose federal laws. If it is invoked, Trump will give the power to destroy the guard and deploy the active service forces to restore the matter. It would temporarily overcome the Posse Comitaus law, which usually restricts the use of the army for local law enforcement.

Trump later said at newsmax, before adding, if we do not have to use it, I will not use it, then if you have a look at what is going on in Portland, that was a long time, and that’s the rebellion. I mean, this is the pure rebellion. “

The comments came after a federal judge on Sunday prevented the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard forces in California and Texas to the streets of Portland, amid protests against the enforcement of immigration and customs (ICE).

The same court had deprived Trump earlier of the publication of Oregon’s goalkeeper in the city.

“Portland was burning for years – not to save him a lot,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “We have to save something else, because I think this is all rebellion. I really think this is a truly criminal rebellion.”

But Judge Karen, IMMERGUT, who is appointed by Trump, said that there is no evidence of recent protests against ICE that made the Federal Guards necessary.

About 100 National Guard soldiers arrived in Portland to deal with controversial protests outside the ICE facility, and this publishing is expected to double by the end of the day before the judge issued its order.

The protester interacts with the deployment of law enforcement officers to disperse people outside the migration and customs enforcement headquarters in the United States in southern Portland, Oregon, October 5, 2025. (Carlos Baria/Reuters)

California and Oregon filed a lawsuit against publishing.

The federal judge prohibits the deployment of the National Guard of Trump to Portland, amid the constitutional challenge

White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, the judge, describing him as “one of the most terrible and intense violations of the constitutional system that we have seen at all.”

Miller said: “There is no legal discrimination between the state’s volunteer guards to guard the borders and the volunteer guards to guard the federal immigration facility,” Miller said. “Either we have a federal government, the condition of excellence, a nation, or do not do that.”

One of the demonstrators stands in the inflatable Capipa costume outside the migration and customs enforcement headquarters in the United States in Portland, Uri, October 6, 2025. (Carlos Baria/Reuters)

Trump also ordered the guard forces from other states to deploy in Chicago and Memphis.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker suggested that Trump was trying to implant disturbances so that he could spread the rebellion law at a press conference on Monday.

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Pritzker said: “The Trump administration follows the book of play: causes chaos, created fear and confusion, and made it seem like peaceful demonstrators are the mob by launching gas pellets and tear gas cans.” “Why? To create an excuse to summon the rebellion so that it can send the military forces to our city.”

During the first administration of Trump, the White House put forward the ability to summon the act in response to George Floyd’s protests, but in the end he did not.