President Donald Trump signed an order deploying National Guard troops to Memphis, Tenn., on Monday.

The president’s ability to deploy the National Guard is strictly limited by the Constitution. However, Trump has been pushing against those limits to his authority in his second term, deploying troops to Los Angeles amid a widespread backlash to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and threatening similar measures in major, Democrat-led cities.

Trump took control of the police force in Washington, D.C., and deployed the district’s National Guard troops in response to a supposed surge in violent crime in the capital. D.C.’s unique status meant that Trump was well within his rights to do so. The Memphis move is Trump’s first attempt to expand the strategy outside of the capital.

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