Trump says may invoke Insurrection Act to deploy more troops in US

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : In their lawsuit, the state Attorney General Kwame Raoul and counsel for Chicago accused Trump of using US troops "to punish his political enemies.
50% : If I had to enact it I would do that," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
50% : " Trump has similarly called Portland "war-ravaged," but District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary block on the Oregon troop deployment, saying "the president's determination was simply untethered to the facts.
49% : The Republican leader openly mulled use of the Insurrection Act after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily halted a National Guard deployment in Portland, while another judge in Illinois allowed a similar move to proceed for now in Chicago.
49% : " Trump over the weekend authorized deployment of 700 National Guard members to Chicago despite the opposition of elected Democratic leaders including Pritzker and the city's mayor.
48% : To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act so that he can send the military to our city.
38% : Both cities have seen surges of federal agents as part of Trump's mass deportation drive, prompting protests outside immigration processing facilities.
37% : Read more: Trump authorizes troops to Chicago as judge blocks Portland deployment Trump administration calls US cities war zones as troops deployed Pentagon calls up 200 National Guard troops after Trump Portland announcement
35% : California filed suit after Trump sent troops to Los Angeles earlier this year to quell protests sparked by a crackdown on undocumented migrants, with the case still working its way through courts.
33% : He also accused federal immigration agents conducting raids in Chicago of "thuggery," using "excessive force," and illegally detaining US citizens.
32% : 'Fear and confusion' Trump's comments about the centuries-old Insurrection Act came just minutes after Pritzker warned that Trump was creating a pre-meditated "escalation of violence" as a pretext to invoke the emergency powers.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.