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 ...

As court rulings stymie President Donald Trump’s ability to send the military to Democratic-run cities, the administration is reportedly considering having the president invoke the Insurrection Act, a ...

President Donald Trump said he could legally invoke the Insurrection Act to tackle violent crime in Chicago and urged Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to "beg for help," intensifying the long-running ...

(CNN) — 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 – ...

President Trump has said there are some circumstances that he would enact the Insurrection Act including if “people were being killed” or if courts, governors or mayors were holding things up. But ...

When Americans talk about sending troops into a city, they are usually talking about the Insurrection Act. Congress first passed the Militia Acts in 1792, authorizing call-ups; the specific ...

"The Insurrection Act was actually passed in 1807, signed by Jefferson," said Laura I. Appleman, a law professor at Willamette University College of Law. "It essentially says that the president under ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's warning that he would deploy the United States military to any state that refuses to take aggressive action against rioting rests on a longstanding presidential ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump says he’d consider invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to fight crime and battle protesters in Democratic-controlled cities. “I’d do it if it was necessary," if ...