Vance says Trump is weighing invoking Insurrection Act
(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing all available measures — including the possible use of the Insurrection Act — after courts intervened to halt the federal deployment of troops in states led by Democrats, according to Vice President J.D. Vance.
Vance’s comments followed the White House decision to place the National Guard under federal authority for operations in Oregon and Illinois. The move aimed to assist immigration enforcement as part of Trump’s intensified crackdown. Officials justified the deployments by citing a surge in crime in Portland and Chicago; however, federal judges have since suspended the out-of-state troop transfers.
Trump has previously mentioned that invoking the Insurrection Act could be an option “if people were being killed and courts were holding us up.” The 1807 law grants presidents the authority to deploy military forces domestically to maintain order without needing congressional consent. “If I had to enact it, I’d do that,” he said.
In a Sunday interview with a news agency, Vance confirmed that the administration was keeping all possibilities on the table. “The president is looking at all his options,” he said, adding that “Right now, he hasn’t felt he needed to.”
Vance criticized media coverage of law enforcement, accusing outlets of encouraging hostility toward police officers. “The problem here is not the Insurrection Act or whether we actually invoke it or not. The problem is the fact that the entire media in this country, cheered on by a few far-left lunatics, have made it OK to tee off on American law enforcement,” he said.
Democrats, meanwhile, have condemned the potential use of federal troops, insisting that local police statistics show declining crime rates in both states. Vance rejected that argument, claiming that local leaders are not “keeping the statistics properly.”
Protests erupted outside Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office last week, where demonstrators clashed with federal officers during nighttime rallies. Smaller marches in solidarity took place in Seattle, San Francisco, and Denver.
The Insurrection Act and related statutes have been invoked roughly 30 times since President George Washington used them to quell the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. The last instance occurred in 1992, when President George H.W. Bush deployed federal forces to Los Angeles during the riots.
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