SFChron: Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

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8. Russell Vought (Architect of Project 2025, current director of OMB) sure likes the Insurrection Act:

Vought laid out how his think tank is crafting the legal rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act, a law that gives the president broad power to use the military for domestic law enforcement. The Washington Post previously reported the issue was at the top of the Center for Renewing America’s priorities.

“We want to be able to shut down the riots and not have the legal community or the defense community come in and say, ‘That’s an inappropriate use of what you’re trying to do,’” he said. Vought held up the summer 2020 unrest following George Floyd’s murder as an example of when Trump ought to have had the ability to deploy the armed forces but was stymied.

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga