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Who controls the National Guard: The history and governance of America’s state-based military force

President Trump has deployed or threatened to deploy the National Guard to U.S. cities. Learn the history and legal authorities of these troops.
Courthouse News Service

Feds urge Ninth Circuit to let National Guard stay federalized in LA

The appeals court previously granted the government an emergency stay after a federal judge ordered the president to return ...

Guards fire on truck at Coast Guard base where federal agents had arrived

Guards at a Coast Guard Base in Oakland, California fired on a civilian truck outside the base gates as federal agents ...

California National Guard to support food banks due to expected food assistance delays

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will deploy the National Guard to support food banks because of expected delays to ...

Top Judge Warns Donald Trump Threatens US Society

A Ninth Circuit judge warned that expanding the president's power to deploy troops at home could endanger democracy.

Bay Area food banks wrestle with taking California National Guard help

Executives at Bay Area food banks expressed concern that the presence of uniformed federal troops at food-distribution sites ...

Trump says he could send "Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines" into U.S. cities "if it was necessary"

President Trump claimed he has the authority to send U.S. military branches to patrol U.S. cities, but said that isn't ...

Trial begins over deployment of guardsmen to Portland, Ore.

A federal trial over whether President Donald Trump can deploy the National Guard to Portland, Ore., began Wednesday with a police commander describing on the witness stand how federal agents at a U.S ...