Khaberni - President Donald Trump threatened to resort to a nineteenth-century law to "suppress rebellions and counter legal barriers that hinder his decisions to deploy troops in American cities."
On Monday, Trump said he might resort to the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy forces in American cities.
Trump explained to reporters in the Oval Office: "We have the Insurrection Act for a good reason," indicating that the law was enacted in the early 19th century to suppress rebellions.
He added, "If I have to activate it, I will do so, if people are being killed and if the courts are hindering us, or governors or mayors are obstructing us."
Trump's statements came after his attempt to deploy federal forces to suppress protests in several cities was thwarted by the courts, with one court preventing the deployment of the military in Oregon, while another allowed it in Illinois.
Trump issued orders to deploy federal forces in many cities such as Los Angeles and the capital, Washington, and threatened to deploy them in other cities as well.
Trump claimed that these measures are necessary to eradicate crime and protect federal facilities and their staff from protests that erupted following his new policy on dealing with immigrants.
In recent days, Trump has attempted to send forces to both Portland in Oregon and Chicago in Illinois, but local officials and governors of those cities, especially Democrats, see it as unnecessary and "unconstitutional."
