U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning to implement the Insurrection Act, allowing military deployment in domestic emergencies, has heightened tensions with Democratic cities. The move has escalated a legal showdown over executive power, as National Guard troops from Texas gear up to patrol Chicago streets.

The president told reporters on Monday he would consider utilizing the Insurrection Act, a law enacted more than two centuries ago, to sidestep any court rulings restricting his orders to send Guard troops into cities over the objections of local and state officials.

“We have an Insurrection Act for a reason,” Trump said. “If people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I’d do that.”

The law, which gives the president aut

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