President Donald Trump and his administration have ramped up a specific rhetorical attack on their perceived opponents, casting Democrats and others as fomenting “insurrection.” Trump and one of his ...
Mr. Bauer and Mr. Goldsmith are the authors of a newsletter about presidential and executive power. The Insurrection Act is a dangerous law that gives the president broad powers to authorize ...
President Donald Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities. The law – more ...
The president has mused for years about using the 1807 law to deploy the military. President Donald Trump has been itching to use the Insurrection Act since the George Floyd protests in 2020. But he’s ...
As blue cities push back on President Donald Trump's tactic of deploying the National Guard to fight crime, the Trump administration has floated the idea of using the Insurrection Act to justify ...
The Insurrection Act is a dangerous law that gives the president broad powers to authorize far-reaching uses of the military in the domestic sphere. It is based on highly permissive standards for ...