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 ...

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 ...

“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 is a law first passed in 1807 that gives the president broad authority to use military force to counter any “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or ...

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.

On his first day in office in January, he asked for "recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether ...

What is the Insurrection Act? The Insurrection Act is an 1807 law that empowers a president to deploy the U.S. military to suppress events like civil disorder.

“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.

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.

Now we find out if Trump, on April 20, will invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deal with what he called on his first day in office " a national emergency at the southern border." ...