President Donald Trump announced this week that he plans to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco, following controversial deployments to Chicago and Portland.

Are these deployments really about fighting crime, or squashing dissent? And are they even legal? Newsweek contributors Mark Davis and David Faris debate:

Mark Davis:

As with anything President Trump does, opinions about the National Guard deployments to various crime hotspots largely reflect opinions of the president. So it’s helpful to examine whether the deployments are proper, and whether they are working. Presidents have wide latitude to deploy the Guard, and protection of federal property is an obvious justification in this season of violent hostility to ICE. And from Washington to Los Angeles, from Chicago to Mem

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