Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser said the district is “examining every legal question about the President’s authority to send troops, even national guard, to the District of Columbia.”
She said she and the District’s attorney general have discussed whether President Trump has the legal authorities to request guard troops from other states and deploy them to DC.
“I have the authority to request guard from other states, I have not requested guard from any state,” she told reporters Wednesday, noting her own authority to make such a request.
“We are, how shall I say, examining every legal question about the President’s authority to send troops, even national guard, to the District of Columbia, and if he has to make any other legal steps to do that,” she said.
More on this: The question has arisen since Trump threatened Monday night to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 in order to deploy active duty US soldiers to police US streets.