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After sending National Guard troops to police the streets of Washington, D.C.,

President Trump is now suggesting he'll do the same for other Democratic-led cities, including Chicago.

But Georgetown University law professor, Vladick says the situation with National Guard

troops in other cities is more legally fraught than using them in the nation's capital.

In D.C., the National Guard has much broader power than it has almost anywhere else in the

country because in D.C. It is always federal. It's always

acting under the command of control of President Trump. In other states, in California, in Illinois,

in New York, the only way President Trump could directly command the National Guard would be to

formally federalize it. And that depends upon President Trump finding various things

to be true on the ground that also don't appear to be true on the ground. And that would expose

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