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.

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 ...

A judge attempted to block Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops, but Trump has more soldiers, and darker options ...

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 ...

The deployment of troops to Los Angeles raises questions about what Trump can and can't do with the military on U.S. soil, and whether he's crossing the line.