Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that President Donald Trump was “looking at all of his options” to deploy the National Guard in major cities, including invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, which grants the president emergency powers to deploy troops on U.S. soil during major unrest.

In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Vance said Trump “has not felt he needed to” invoke the Insurrection Act “right now,” but he has not ruled it out.

Last week, Trump said he saw the Insurrection Act as “a way to get around” recent court rulings blocking his efforts to deploy the guard to fight crime and put down protests against the government’s crackdown on immigrants in the county illegally.

Generally speaking, the Insurrection Act gives the president the power to send military forces

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