In a Fox News interview this past weekend, President Donald Trump claimed that invoking the Insurrection Act would allow him to have “unquestioned power,” and even suggested that it could be used to suspend court cases — despite nothing in the statute indicating as such.

Trump has sent National Guard troops to a number of U.S. cities, ostensibly to assist other federal agents carrying out immigration raids and operations. In two of those cities (Chicago and Portland), federal judges have blocked his use of troops , noting that the deployment of troops was likely unnecessary and provocative.

In the interview, Trump suggested he would next try to send troops to San Francisco , and that, were he blocked from doing so this time around, he would invoke the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law

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