Case Explained:This article breaks down the legal background, charges, and implications of Case Explained: Trump hints at potential National Guard return to cities amid crime concerns – Legal Perspective
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Several days after President Donald Trump said he’s removing the National Guard from three major cities, he suggested that troops could return to U.S. cities “when the crime starts.”
“We can go back, we’re allowed to go back in, but we’ll go back in when the crime starts,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “Look, the crime will soon start because they now know that we’re out. And at the appropriate time we’ll go, go back in and we may, if we, you know, we’re allowed to. The most powerful thing we have, we haven’t used the Insurrection Act.”
Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Dec. 31 that he was retracting the guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland.
The move comes after the president had major legal setbacks in all three cities with the deployment of the guard.
Trump withdrew his lawsuit over keeping control over the troops in Los Angeles. Since their deployment, an ongoing legal battle has been waged between the president and state leaders over the National Guard.
The Supreme Court ruled that the president is unable to use the National Guard in Chicago for law enforcement purposes.
Lastly, a judge permanently blocked the deployment of the National Guard from Portland in early November.
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Trump has not mentioned Washington, D.C., where the National Guard is still deployed and could stay past summer 2026.