Stanford University law professor Bernadette Meyler told The Dispatch she believes the most plausible route for the National Guard to be deployed in relation to the election would be for the administration or sympathetic governors to say that troops were “preventing interference with state and federal law or enforcing civil or constitutional rights, say the right to vote. … And the reason that I think that that would be something conceivably this administration might do is because there have been so many efforts to limit voting through claims of actually protecting voting.”