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 ...

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.

In skirting the insurrection question, they also probed who gets to decide whether an insurrection took place, with several suggesting states should not have that power. The only justice to ...

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 ...

Trump lawyer Jonathan Mitchell rejected the notion that the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, qualified as an insurrection. “This was a riot,” he said. “It was not an ...

“Ron DeSantis still hasn’t condemned the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Crist said in a tweet in late June. Although Florida is the state with the largest number of people arrested in connection with ...

Only then will this nation be able to move forward from the ongoing insurrection. Beyond the avalanche of documents and testimony pointing to Trump’s guilt and the principle that no one is above ...

They're pushing Congress to update a cluster of laws known as the Insurrection Act and limit how the White House can deploy troops on American soil, in case a future president takes advantage of ...

The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to deploy U.S. military personnel and National Guard troops to curb civil unrest. Trump reportedly almost invoked the law in 2020 over the George ...

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 ...