How Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans are reacting to Trump’s National Guard threats

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Marchers at a Labor Day rally in Chicago protested President Trump’s threatened National Guard deployment on Monday. He has the authority to do so because the Home Rule Act gives him command of D.C.’s National Guard. He has rejected President Trump’s calls to send the National Guard to Baltimore. PresidentTrump has publicly weighed sending National Guard troops to the city, an idea Louisiana’s Republican governor has embraced. Carter stressed that the Louisiana National Guard shouldn’t be diverted from disaster response efforts during Atlantic hurricane season.