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The potential deployment of the National Guard as a unified operational response to the warnings of violence.
A months‑long series of protests at the Portland ICE facility began in June 2025 and continued into January 2026, drawing mostly small nightly demonstrations that occasionally swelled and produced con...
participated in discussions about deployments for in the days before the and told leadership to be prepared, but there is no clear, contemporaneous evidence that he formally requested or signed an ord...
State governors activate their National Guard for law-enforcement support primarily by using state authorities — notably State Active Duty and Title 32 status — which keep the Guard under gubernatoria...
Federal officers on operated under a patchwork of existing law-enforcement policies rather than a single, clearly communicated wartime “rules of engagement”; in practice that meant individual agencies...
There is no credible evidence that former President Donald Trump signed an order or directly sent National Guard troops to defend the U.S. Capitol as it was being attacked on January 6, 2021; multiple...
Federal statements from DHS and allied agencies have at times contradicted local officials and video evidence by misidentifying locations, misstating timelines, and asserting justifications for use of...
The Uniform Code of Military Justice governs members of the armed forces, not ordinary civilians or elected officials such as U.S. Senators, unless those civilians are wearing a military status that p...
Capitol Police and multiple federal agencies received numerous warning signs in the weeks and days before , 2021, including open‑source social media posts calling for violence, field and reports notin...
is the formal category of military members who hold ranks below commissioned officers and who typically perform the bulk of hands‑on, occupational work in armed forces; in practice this group is organ...
moved quickly after to pour roughly $1.9–$2.1 billion into Capitol-related security: -passed emergency supplemental totaled $1.9 billion , and the final enacted package was reported at about $2.1 bill...
’s public remarks about the military have produced a paradox: they bolster support among a significant slice of veterans who prioritize policy outcomes and partisan alignment, while simultaneously pro...
Fact-checkers distinguish "dodged the draft" from "legally deferred" by anchoring claims to documented legal status (deferment, exemption, 4‑F medical classification, or failure to register) and to cr...
A publicly released video showing Nancy Pelosi inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 is documentary footage shot by her daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, for an HBO project and subsequently t...
Nancy Pelosi was not on the House floor as rioters entered the Capitol; she and other congressional leaders were sheltering in a secure location inside the Capitol complex while making calls to law en...
Multiple contemporaneous accounts and later investigations show that defense officials and some governors offered or discussed National Guard support in the days before January 6, but there was no sin...
Local leaders can and do ask for National Guard help, but the legal pathway, who controls the troops, and when they can be used depend on whether the Guard is serving under state or federal authority,...
Congressional investigations, led by the House Select Committee, and documentary records assembled by oversight groups concluded there is no evidence that President Trump signed an order to deploy the...
The on-the-ground federal law enforcement response on January 6, 2021, rested first with the United States Capitol Police (USCP) and other on-site agencies, then flowed up a fragmented institutional c...
The available reporting shows that House leadership — including Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office — did directly try to contact Pentagon officials about bringing in National Guard forces on January 6, 202...