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 ...

U.S. National Guard soldiers armed with machine guns and grenade launchers in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992. Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images ...

U.S. Sens Alex Padilla, D-California, Adam Schiff, D-California, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, introduced the new Insurrection Act of 2025 to moderate the president’s use of the act in ...

U.S. Sens Alex Padilla, D-California, Adam Schiff, D-California, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, introduced the new Insurrection Act of 2025 to moderate the president’s use of the act in ...

A day later, President Donald Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to the city, invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807—without approval from California Gov. Gavin ...

That did not happen here." The Insurrection Act, however, does not say enforcement of federal law must be objectively "impracticable…by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings." ...

Military Whether or Not Trump Invokes It, the Insurrection Act Is Antiquated and Dangerously Broad On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to ...

Where was he on Jan. 6 when there was a true insurrection against the Capitol? Oh, I forgot — that was a day of love for which pardons to the tune of 1,500 were granted.

The Insurrection Act, which allows federal U.S. troops to enforce civilian laws on U.S. soil, is often confused with martial law, but the two are very different. Jeff Schogol ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Trump have left door open to invoking the Insurrection Act, but have offered few details on exact threshold that would provoke White House to trigger ...

President Donald Trump is openly considering invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act to quell mounting unrest in Los Angeles, where hundreds of Marines and National Guard troops now patrol downtown ...

Trump has floated invoking the Insurrection Act. It’s only been done a handful of times in modern history. Trump has already deployed thousands of National Guard troops — and hundreds of Marines.