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President Trump is stepping up his push to send the National Guard into major U.S. cities,
this time focusing on Chicago, which he's called a killing field.
Trump is already cranking down on crime in Washington,
D.C., where federal law gives him more authority.
Georgetown law professor Steve Laddick tells NPR that it gets trickier outside of the nation's capital.
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 whatever he would try to, I think, a significant risk of litigation.
Meanwhile, the governor of Illinois and other top Democrats are pushing back against Trump's plan,
calling the effort.
French President Emmanuel Macron is warning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against weaponizing anti-Semitism.
The Israeli leader has accused the French government of not doing enough to stop what he called anti-Semitism's rise in France.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports from Paris.