I’m in Portland regularly and it’s one of the nation’s most placid and safest big cities. Protests have at times been unruly over the years, but are well within the ability of local police to control. He also suggested federal troops would target crime problems. If the Constitution wasn’t clear enough, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 directly bans the authorities from using federal troops for civilian law enforcement unless authorized by Congress. Trump’s efforts to use federal troops on U.S. soil is an affront to our nation’s Constitution and subsequent legal system.