Federal and state officials have declared martial law 68 times in the past, such as in Hawaii following the Japanese attack ...

National Guard members and Marines deployed to Los Angeles cannot perform law enforcement duties by law. That would change if ...

Trump's National Guard deployment to Los Angeles and recent comments signal more sweeping executive actions are possible. Is ...

President Trump on Tuesday said he would “certainly” invoke the Insurrection Act to respond to the demonstrations on the ...

The Insurrection Act lets the U.S. president deploy troops domestically to suppress civil disorder, insurrection or rebellion.

Legal experts regard the act as a major exception to the law that generally forbids the use of the military for domestic law enforcement. By Christine Hauser and William Lamb President Trump said ...

President Donald Trump is trying to justify his decision to deploy National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area this weekend ...

Social media posts predicted that President Donald Trump will declare martial law April 20, but they appeared to conflate it with the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was mentioned in a recent ...

A report assessing the U.S.-Mexico border situation and potentially recommending invoking the Insurrection Act is due to President Trump. The report, ordered by President Trump in January ...

Now we find out if Trump, on April 20, will invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deal with what he called on his first day in office "a national emergency at the southern border." Trump has ...

As that 90-day detail approaches, here’s what to know about the Insurrection Act of 1807. The Insurrection Act is not one piece of legislation; rather, it is the combination of a series of laws ...