President Donald Trump said he would send 700 U.S. Marines to Los Angeles because of demonstrations. Can he do that?

Everything you wanted to know about the law that’s supposed to prevent presidents, like Trump, from deploying the military ...

President Trump and California Gov. Newsom clash over National Guard deployment amid L.A. riots, with differing views on the ...

In 1878, responding to the abuses of the Union Army in law enforcement after the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Posse ...

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

How did Trump send in National Guard Troops and Marines to L.A.? An explainer of presidential authority and the limits of ...

Trump has not yet invoked the law ... In British and American law, a posse comitatus is a group of people who are mobilized by the sheriff to suppress lawlessness in a county, according to ...

By Dietrich KnauthPresident Donald Trump has deployed National Guard troops to California after two days of protests by ...

The Posse Comitatus Act was signed into law by ... those troops have not participated in any direct law enforcement. Trump sent in the National Guard after Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles has exceeded the legal limits of ...