Trump's National Guard deployment to Los Angeles and recent comments signal more sweeping executive actions are possible. Is ...

President Donald Trump has contemplated invoking the Insurrection Act to use the military for domestic law enforcement nationwide.

President Donald Trump was asked if he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act amid citywide protests in Los Angeles. The rarely used 1807 law allows the president to deploy active-duty ...

Sen. Mark Warner wants to rein in a 218-year old law granting presidents sweeping power to send troops to suppress protests, a measure President Donald Trump has said he might ...

The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to use active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties inside the US.

What is the Insurrection Act of 1807? The 19th-century law would allow the use of active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties within the US.

Federal and state officials have declared martial law 68 times in the past, such as in Hawaii following the Japanese attack ...

“It was terrible.” The Insurrection Act, a rarely used 1807 law, allows the president to deploy military forces within the United States to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.

“The Insurrection Act hasn’t been invoked since 1992 — largely because domestic use of the military is generally unpopular,” he wrote on Twitter, now X, in 2020.