Too little attention has been paid to Trump’s illegal federalizing of states’ National Guards. He casts aside history, tradition, and settled law that places control of these citizen soldiers in the hands of governors.

President Trump has deployed or threatened to deploy the National Guard to U.S. cities. Learn the history and legal authorities of these troops.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to cities across America —from Los Angeles to Chicago, often over governors’ objections — has thrust the nation’s oldest military organization into the center of a ...

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is taking aim at federal officials over what he calls an “unlawful and indefinite” deployment of the National Guard to the nation’s capital. Schwalb said the ongoing military presence “is an affront to Home Rule and undermines the core principles of American

We should always question why the government mobilizes troops, whether it be to Vietnam, to Iraq, or to the streets of Portland. All U.S. soldiers have the right to communicate with and question Congress according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice,

A military veteran and senator criticizes President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to American cities including Chicago and Los Angeles.

Texas National Guard troops mobilized by President Donald Trump to deal with protests in Chicago are working without pay. The 400 Guardsmen, who were ordered to active duty on Sunday, will not receive paychecks as long as the federal government shutdown ...

Please don’t blame National Guard soldiers if they are deployed to Portland, (“Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online,” Oct. 8). I hope it doesn’t happen. But if it does ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va . (WTAP) - Governor Morrisey says the state already distributed over $8 million and plans to provide up to $14 million to fill the gap of the benefits. The governor of West Virginia visited the Step by Step Family Center in Charleston Tuesday Nov. 4 to give an update.