As President Donald Trump’s National Guard deployments to cities across the country have met with opposition from governors, city officials , and the courts , he has repeatedly threatened to invoke a law that would extend his power to deploy the military within the U.S.

Trump has floated the possibility that he could use the 19th-century law , the Insurrection Act, to bypass court rulings that restrict him from sending Guard troops to American cities over the objections of local and state officials.

“We have an Insurrection Act for a reason,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, calling it “a way to get around” pushback from officials and noting that he would invoke it “if it were necessary, but so far it hasn’t been necessary.” He described conditions that he said w

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