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October 20, 2025

President Trump Threatens to Send National Guard Troops to San Francisco
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President Trump says the government will send National Guard troops to
San Francisco and may invoke the Insurrection Act to do so. It comes as
President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow him to send
National Guard troops to the Chicago area by lifting lower court orders
blocking the deployment. Meanwhile, seven officials in Tennessee are
suing the Trump administration for sending the National Guard to
Memphis.

The lawsuit, backed by the nonprofit Democracy Forward, says, "Our
nation's founders recognized that military rule was incompatible with
liberty and democracy. … The facts on the ground cannot justify
Defendants' overreach."

Meanwhile, Vermont's Republican Governor Phil Scott blasted Trump's
deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago and Portland, calling it
unconstitutional. It follows Oklahoma's GOP Governor Kevin Stitt
criticizing the deployment of the Texas National Guard to Illinois.


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