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California National Guard members stand guard at an entrance to the Wilshire Federal Building on June 13, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will back off his plans to use National Guard troops in the Democratic-led cities of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move follows the Supreme Court<\/a>\u2019s decision last week that found Trump could not deploy guard members to Chicago, ruling that the president did not meet the requirements to send guard members to the Windy City for the purpose of assisting with federal immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

Several federal judges have either blocked the deployments or found them unlawful. The\u00a0Posse Comitatus Act<\/a> of 1878, generally prevents the military from participating in civilian law enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again \u2013 Only a question of time!\u201d Trump wrote on his social media site, TruthSocial.<\/p>\n

The president first deployed National Guard troops earlier this summer\u00a0to Los Angeles<\/a>, following massive protests against immigration raids.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He has continued to send service members to cities with Democratic leaders, a decision that has tested the legal bounds of presidential authority on military law all the way up to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

An appeals court in early December ruled that the Trump administration must remove troops from Los Angeles, which upheld a lower court ruling that found it illegal to keep an extended military presence long after protests quelled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In November, a federal judge permanently blocked<\/a> the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

The judge,\u00a0Karin Immergut, found the move to use service members for the purpose of protecting a federal immigration facility exceeded presidential authority. Trump nominated Immergut in his first term.<\/p>\n

Guard members are still deployed in the District of Columbia; Memphis, Tennessee; and New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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