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During his first administration, Trump threatened use of the Insurrection Act (of 1807). At one point he suggested the military should shoot protesters in the legs, which clearly would have been ...
The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law [1] that empowers the president of the United States to deploy the U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.
“Trump’s style is ‘Don’t get in my way,’” said William Banks, a Syracuse University law professor and expert on the Insurrection Act. The 1807 law, Banks said gives the president ...
The Insurrection Act contains three triggers for military deployment. The first is relatively uncontroversial because it requires a state to explicitly request military assistance to suppress an ...
In December, Trump pardoned multiple allies who would later participate in the D.C. rallies of January 5–6. On December 8, Trump pardoned retired U.S. Army General Michael Flynn who had pleaded guilty to "willfully and knowingly" making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI
Trump's previous comments, such as suggesting he can "terminate" the Constitution to reverse his election loss, [18] [19] his claim that he would only be a dictator on "day one" of his presidency and not after, [c] his promise to use the Justice Department to go after his political enemies, [20] and his plan to use the Insurrection Act of 1807 ...
Morrow said that Trump could have invoked an “executive order against voter fraud,” and says Trump also could have invoked the Insurrection Act, a law dating back more than two hundred years ...
Legal scholars at the Brennan Center for Justice have stated that the ruling has the effect of allowing the President to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 freely as it is within presidential authority to determine what constitutes an ‘insurrection’, ‘rebellion’, ‘domestic violence’, or other exigency that may require military forces.