On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.

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

Attorney General Pam Bondi has declined to say what the president was thinking about the possibility of invoking the drastic ...

President Donald Trump has hinted that he may invoke the Insurrection Act in response to ongoing protests in Los Angeles over his immigration policies. When asked in the Oval Office whether he would ...

"A lot of uncertainty about how President Trump's administration policies on immigration, who they claim are here illegally— how that would play out in New Mexico," KOAT legal expert John Day said.

President Trump issued a memo authorizing the National Guard to post up in Los Angeles, but California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ...

WASHINGTON — Setting up a rare use of military force on domestic soil, President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on ...

President Trump is sending the National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom by invoking rarely used ...

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The Insurrection Act permits the president to deploy the military to suppress an insurrection or otherwise enforce the law when other means of ensuring legal compliance are unavailable. Federalizing a ...

and SB 261 (Climate-Related Financial Risk Disclosure Act), passed as part of the Climate Accountability Package, impose mandatory climate disclosures with compliance deadlines beginning in 2026 and ...