Legal battle lines drawn over Trump's National Guard fight

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : A federal judge in Oregon has already twice blocked Trump from deploying troops to Portland for now, and Illinois has asked a federal judge in to do the same in Chicago.
59% : But nowadays, a lot of action takes place during the summer, so we prefer to wipe the scoreboard in October when the new term starts.
59% : A federal judge in California is set to hold a preliminary injunction hearing in a challenge to the Department of Agriculture's demand states turn over data about millions of Americans who've applied for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
54% : "You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it.
53% : Usually, it's a governor's job to control their state's National Guard, a reserve military force which is typically called into action during natural disasters or civil unrest.
50% : Trump has relied on Title 10 to mobilize National Guard members in Oregon, Illinois and California, where a judge ruled last month troops ran afoul of the law when Trump sent them to Los Angeles.
50% : Trump commands the city's National Guard but Republican-led states offered up additional troops in Title 32 status, meaning they are under local authority but federally funded.
50% : But Trump still holds a trump card.
50% : Trump said Monday he would invoke the rarely used power "if it was necessary." "So far, it hasn't been necessary," Trump said.
50% : Comey was hit with two charges after Trump ramped up pressure on his Justice Department to prosecute his adversaries.
50% : The aide Trump tapped, Lindsey Halligan, had no prior experience as a prosecutor but remains, and, until yesterday, remained the only prosecutor on the case.
50% : Trump, whose feud with Comey dates back nearly a decade, meanwhile called his former FBI director a "dirty cop" and hoped of officials facing charges that there "would be others.
50% : " Trump signed a Day 1 executive order mandating the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) house transgender women in male-only facilities and restrict access to gender-affirming care.
50% : Last month, a Florida jury convicted a man of attempting to assassinate Trump at his golf course, the second such attempt he faced last year.
49% : He could invoke the Insurrection Act, an exception to Posse Comitatus that allows the president to send active-duty military into states that can't quell a rebellion on their own or are defying federal law.
48% : It comes with a catch: Federal troops are subject to the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law generally barring their participation in civilian law enforcement.
48% : The judge also issued a ruling in June ordering the administration to restore certain AmeriCorps funding and two earlier in the year blocking Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) personnel from accessing sensitive data at three agencies.
46% : It stands to impact similar laws in several other states.
45% : She has not yet made any major rulings in the case. Roske's case has garnered national attention amid a rising trend of political violence.
42% : We won't go through all the remaining 18, but a few we want to highlight: * COVID vaccines: In Does 1-2 v. Hochul, health care workers are attempting to revive their civil rights lawsuit against New York for not providing religious exemptions from the state's now-repealed COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
35% : California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who joined Oregon's lawsuit when Trump mobilized hundreds of his state's troops after a federal judge blocked the administration from federalizing Oregon's own troops, urged that "states cannot invade one another.
35% : "What an outrageously dangerous signal to send as political violence is on the rise.
26% : It's raised concerns of another incident of political violence, though South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Monday that law enforcement have found "no evidence" so far the fire was intentionally set.

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