President Donald Trump could invoke a centuries-old law that would authorize him to deploy the United States military to the southern border and order them to assist law enforcement in carrying ...

Ever since Donald Trump was indicted in the federal election interference case in 2023, a lingering question has been why special counsel Jack Smith didn’t charge him under the Insurrection Act.

They said that also should be considered an “insurrection” against the Constitution. So far, very little in the real world. Aware that the case was very likely going to the U.S. Supreme Court ...

The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and its disruption of the peaceful transfer of power and certification of the election of President Joe Biden remains one of the darkest days in U.S. history.

But the man Trump sought to appoint as attorney general had an easy answer for that, according to the new indictment of the former president: invoke the Insurrection Act. The indictment lists six ...

In the report, Smith explained that his team viewed charging Trump with insurrection — or incitement to insurrection — was fraught largely because it’s a dramatically unexplored area of ...

In particular, Trump has become an ardent student of the Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the president to suspend the Posse Comitatus Act (which prohibits the use of federal forces in ...

But the Insurrection Act suspends Posse Comitatus when the country faces a rebellion, political violence, or other major incidents, said Risa Brooks, a political science professor at Marquette ...

Other than what is stated in the southern border executive order, no other statements have been made regarding the possible invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807. What is the Insurrection Act ...

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 ...