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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

In an attempt to subdue protesters, President Donald Trump has deployed more than 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 ...