The text is indeed simple, and directly contradicts the President’s authority here:
> Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.
To surpass that, the president must declare an insurrection. But he’s done no such thing, since such a claim is nakedly indefensible.
(This justification of course only applies to the national guard. The federal armed forces have even stronger guardrails.)
