updated Fri. September 29, 2023
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Top Secret Writers
March 10, 2018
There's actually a law called the Insurrection Act of 1807 that describes how the government can respond to such a scenario: ... In many ways the Insurrection Act is in direct contradiction to the Declaration of Independence — but it's there to provide government with the power to essentially protectÃâà...
TIME
June 30, 2017
According to the Los Angeles Times, a U.S. president can deploy troops anywhere in the the country under a specific scenario thanks to the Insurrection Act of 1807. However, as legal expert John Yoo of UC Berkeley told the Times, the only way Chicago's situation could fall under the Act would be “if theÃâà...
The Good Men Project (blog)
May 15, 2017
The Insurrection Act of 1807 governs the ability of the President of the United States to deploy troops within the United States to put down lawlessness, insurrection, and rebellion. The general aim is to limit presidential power as much as possible, relying on state and local governments for initial response inÃâà...
Governing
February 13, 2017
Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, a president can deploy troops anywhere in the United States in a very specific scenario. "Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States make it impracticable to enforceÃâà...
WCPO
January 26, 2017
President Eisenhower invoked the Insurrection Act in 1957 to enforce desegregation in Little Rock, Ark., as did President Kennedy in 1962-63 in Mississippi and Alabama. President George H.W. Bush invoked the law in 1992 to respond to the Los Angeles riots, although the U.S. military was never actuallyÃâà...
JURIST
May 2, 2013
The Insurrection Act of 1807 [PDF] was one of the first and most important US laws on this subject, and was followed some 71 years later by the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which further limited executive authority to conduct military law enforcement on US soil. Each of those laws has evolved over timeÃâà...
Center For American Progress
October 23, 2008
Before the bill passed, the president could deploy troops inside the United States only if he invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows for deployment only “to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.” The new law expands the list to includeÃâà...
