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 ...

Gov. Newsom argues Los Angeles does not need the military to keep the peace: "To put it bluntly, there is no invasion or ...

President Trump’s deployment of more than 700 Marines to Los Angeles—following ICE raids and mass protests—has ignited a ...

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 ...

President Trump has long mused about sending the military to crush protests in blue-state cities. He is now using troops in ...

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

The apparent plan is to let the military act as ... alarming implications for democratic freedoms. Moreover, it continues a pattern of the president stretching his emergency powers past their limits ...

President Donald Trump agrees that judges upholding migrants’ legal rights are engaged in a form of “judicial insurrection ... to conflate two separate issues: general due process for ...

President Donald Trump arrives at a swearing in ceremony for Dr. Mehmet Oz to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday ...