January 20, 2025, Donald Trump is going to be inaugurated a second time as the 47th President of the United States. His ...

Ever since Donald Trump was indicted in the federal election interference case in 2023, a lingering question has been why special counsel Jack Smith didn’t charge him under the Insurrection Act.

The crime that Smith considered stems from the Insurrection Act, a Civil War-era law that criminalizes “whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection ...

Trump has vowed to use the military to assist with deportations, relying on emergency and wartime powers such as the Insurrection Act, the National Emergencies Act, and the Alien Enemies Act.

Ever since Donald Trump was indicted in the federal election interference case in 2023, a lingering question has been why special counsel Jack Smith didn’t charge him under the Insurrection Act. We ...

Special counsel Jack Smith chose not to bring more charges against Donald Trump apart from the four counts related to the election interference case against the president-elect. CBS News' Rob ...

However, the final Jan. 6 committee report suggests that Trump violated the Insurrection Act. Smith’s report notes that there “does not appear to have ever been a prosecution under the statute ...

Lawmakers later delegated this authorization, in the 1807 Insurrection Act, to the U.S. president, who may call out the troops if “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination ...

What happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to many of the nation’s courts and judges, was an insurrection by the very definition of the word. So why, at the end of a yearslong probe, ...

Why wasn’t Donald Trump ever charged with the crime of insurrection? It’s a question that has been looming over the federal prosecution of the president-elect, with his allies and supporters ...