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President Donald Trump has repeatedly signaled he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act, a law from 1807 that allows the president to deploy the military in the United States. Earlier this month, ...

As blue cities push back on President Donald Trump's tactic of deploying the National Guard to fight crime, the Trump administration has floated the idea of using the Insurrection Act to justify ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. President Trump has discussed invoking the Insurrection Act as a way to further deploy the military to U.S. cities ...

President Donald Trump and his administration have ramped up a specific rhetorical attack on their perceived opponents, casting Democrats and others as fomenting “insurrection.” Trump and one of his ...

Mr. Bauer and Mr. Goldsmith are the authors of a newsletter about presidential and executive power. The Insurrection Act is a dangerous law that gives the president broad powers to authorize ...

President Donald Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities. The law – more ...

President Trump on Sunday called the Insurrection Act “the strongest power a president has” after saying earlier this month he was considering invoking it. “We want to have great, crime-free cities.