Please clarify: Did Trump just invoke The Insurrection Act?

[no_hypocrisy]

American Military in towns and cities against civilians?

[SoCalNative]

1. Yes he did

What could possibly go wrong?

[Peacetrain]

2. Yes

[Backseat Driver]

3. That's what I heard!

[bdamomma]

4. more death

to Americans.

[elleng]

5. May have tried to.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255; prior to 2016, 10 U.S.C. §§ 331–335) that governs the ability of the President of the United States to deploy military troops within the United States to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, and rebellion.

Long title: An Act authorizing the employment of ...
Effective: March 3, 1807
Enacted by: the 9th United States Congress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act#:~:text=The%20Insurrection%20Act%20of%201807,disorder%2C%20insurrection%2C%20and%20rebellion.

[Generic Other]

15. This act trumps that act...

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act – in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 – is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. It was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and was updated in 1956 and 1981.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Yes, he just declared war on civilians in America

[superpatriotman]

7. Yes

Cause we’re all terrorists now.

[spanone]

8. A law from 1807

[Solly Mack]

9. Yes

[enid602]

10. sounds like

Sounds a bit like a declaration of Martial Law.

[NightWatcher]

11. Yes. Called us unrest and revolution.

[RussBLib]

12. He didn't say that in so many words. N/t

[Upthevibe]

13. Is this Martial Law?!?! n/t

[EllieBC]

14. I think so? Wasn't it last invoked in 1992?

It’s not a common one, that’s for sure.