Responding to concerns that President Donald Trump could use the Insurrection Act to deploy troops domestically, Congressman ...

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President Donald Trump has said he may invoke the Insurrection Act, a law that grants the president the authority to deploy ...

Here we are, once again learning that the restraints Americans could rely upon in the past are fast disappearing ...

Trump was asked by ABC News if he's prepared to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to curb protests against his immigration crackdown in Los Angeles. His answer: "It depends." ...

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

“That runs the gamut from making arrests, investigating crimes, and doing police work, all the way up to guarding prisoners ...

The Insurrection Act's terms are so broad and vague that the statute arguably allows the president to deploy "the militia or the armed forces" at will in response to nearly any form of domestic ...

U.S. military troops and federal immigration officers have made a brief but mighty show of force at MacArthur Park in Los ...