The act allows the use of active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties within the United States.

Kuzminski with the Center for a New American Security said the president has broad authority to invoke the Insurrection Act.

President Donald Trump told reporters he could potentially invoke the Insurrection Act, a law that allows the deployment of ...

By Emily Schmall, Andrea Shalal and Joseph Ax CHICAGO (Reuters) -Hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers gathered on ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he might use the Insurrection Act, a law authorizing ...

President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he could invoke the 1807 statute, which gives the president the power to deploy ...

President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act as his National Guard deployments to U.S. cities meet ...

The Insurrection Act has not been invoked for more than 30 years, and President Trump’s use of the emergency powers for ...

The law has not been invoked since 1992 and has not been used without the consent of a state’s governor for 60 years.

Trump’s Insurrection Act option, Pritzker says Guard troops are ‘props and pawns,’ Pentagon pulls back on press restrictions.

Axios reported Tuesday that a draft of a memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget claimed that federal ...

Even as the White House insists the president is on firm legal ground in sending troops to Oregon, the president has floated ...