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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cWe have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I\u2019d do that. If people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I\u2019d do that.\u201d \u201cEl pueblo est\u00e1 presente. Se ve, se siente.\u201d \u201cI refuse to let Donald Trump, Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino continue on this march toward autocracy. Their plan all along has been to cause chaos that \u2014 and then they can use that chaos to consolidate Donald Trump\u2019s power. The State of Illinois is going to use every lever at our disposal to resist this power grab and get Noem\u2019s thugs the hell out of Chicago.\u201d \u201cThey are escalating violence in the city. This is not making anyone safer. These raids \u2014 you saw that the raids they just did a few days ago. They were innocent people.\u201d \u201cAs the day went on, we were progressively pushed not just by ICE, but also by Broadview Police Department. We\u2019ve done these things peacefully. We have done our due diligence to make sure that we are in accordance with the laws.\u201d<\/p>\n On Monday, the president said that he was considering invoking the Insurrection Act to send National Guard troops to American cities. The act would grant him emergency powers to deploy troops and bypass court rulings.<\/span><\/p>\n By Jamie Leventhal<\/p>\n October 6, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Trump Considers Invoking Insurrection Act transcript Back transcript Trump Considers Invoking Insurrection Act On Monday, the president said that he was considering invoking the Insurrection Act to send National Guard troops to American cities. The act would grant him emergency powers to deploy troops and bypass court rulings. \u201cWe have an Insurrection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[4308,1802,15845,15844,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-26360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-act","9":"tag-considers","10":"tag-insurrection","11":"tag-invoking","12":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Trump Considers Invoking Insurrection Act<\/h2>\n
On Monday, the president said that he was considering invoking the Insurrection Act to send National Guard troops to American cities. The act would grant him emergency powers to deploy troops and bypass court rulings.<\/h4>\n