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A president should be able to send the National Guard into a state over its governor's objection.
Governors normally command their state's National Guard, but federal law lets a president take control of it in some situations. Since 2025, the use of that power to send troops into cities has been challenged in court.
Chris Coons
the Trump Administration's unprecedented deployment of out-of-state Guard personnel into a non-consenting jurisdiction is a significant overreach of executive power
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