President Trump is sending the National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom by invoking rarely used ...

President Trump issued a memo authorizing the National Guard to post up in Los Angeles, but California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ...

Pam Bondi dodges questions about what legal threshold is for Trump to invoke Insurrection Act - Attorney General told ...

The Insurrection Act is a law while "martial law" is a concept that doesn't have a legal definition in the ... in the days before the riots about the implications if Trump were to invoke the ...

Whether our institutions can withstand this assault may determine whether American democracy emerges from this crisis intact.

Trump's effort to use the military to quell protests received pushback for his staff during his first administration. Now ...

By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage writes about presidential power and legal ... Act, it is normally illegal to use federal troops on domestic soil for policing purposes. But an 1807 law, the ...

Beyond the legal implications of the border operation ... question whether or not your use on the border or under the Insurrection Act could be considered illegal or immoral orders, and learn ...

“No,” Mr. Trump’s legal counsel says ... is that Mr. Trump has acted legally under the provisions of the Insurrection Act of 1807. “What’s the Insurrection Act?” ...

The primary exception is an 1807 law, the Insurrection Act, that allows states to request ... but the courts probably wouldn’t stop it from happening, legal experts said. As federal troops ...

What's False Trump did not invoke the Insurrection Act ... In other words, the act is the most widely cited legal authority regarding the president's power to deploy the military or the National ...