Trump keeps name-checking the Insurrection Act. It could give him extraordinary powers
There are few laws President Trump name-checks more frequently than the Insurrection Act.
A 200-year-old constellation of statutes, the act grants emergency powers to thrust active-duty soldiers into civilian police duty, something otherwise barred by federal law.
Trump and his team have threatened to invoke it almost daily for weeks — most recently on Monday, after a reporter pressed the president about his escalating efforts to dispatch federalized troops to Democrat-led cities.
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Roughly a third of U.S. presidents have called on the statutes at some point — but history also shows the law has been used only in moments of extraordinary crisis and political upheaval.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-keeps-name-checking-insurrection-100000837.html
The only insurrection is being lead by him.
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