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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

President Trump's efforts to send the National Guard into Blue Cities reaches the Supreme Court after an appeals panel blocks a deployment to Chicago.

Plus, the administration's invitation to nine colleges to join a higher education compact falls flat,

with none taking the deal as the deadline passes and many outright rejecting it.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleague editorial board member Colin Levy.

There are now parallel legal cases playing out in the federal courts over President Trump's orders for the National Guard to go into Chicago, as well as Portland, Oregon.

Trump had cited a section of law letting the president federalize members of State National Guard.

If there is a danger of invasion by a foreign nation, a rebellion, or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States, or if the president is unable with the irregular forces to execute the laws of the United States.

District courts in both of those cases had blocked the

White House's efforts. And then on Monday, an appeals panel of the Ninth Circuit allowed the

Portland deployment to proceed. He's saying this, some of these protests have been peaceful,

but many have turned violent. Protesters have threatened federal law enforcement

officers and the building. That panel suggesting that that met the criteria in the law for

federalizing and deploying those National Guard forces. And that was only days after a panel of

the Seventh Circuit went in the other direction in Chicago, saying that a protest does not

become a rebellion, quote, merely because of sporadic and isolated incidents of unlawful activity,

or even violence committed by rogue participants in the protest, unquote. Both of those cases,

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