But that is a real possibility under President Donald Trump, whose threat to invoke the Insurrection Act raises the specter of unchecked violence and abuse of power that puts our democracy at risk, ...

The looming possibility of Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, in an attempt to paper it over, actually raises more danger of unconstitutional orders. We have just spent 20 years being used as ...

Abbott is in Washington this week to lobby Congress for $11 billion to compensate Texas for money spent on his Operation Lone ...

Fortifying barriers has long been a military task on border missions that date back to the administration of George W. Bush.

Democrats have proposed a bill to limit the President’s ability to deploy U.S. military forces at home under the Insurrection Act to a two week period. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D–Conn.) ...

The main exception to that act is the Insurrection Act. The law, which is more than 200 years old, grants the president power ...

Trump has vowed to use the military to assist with deportations, relying on emergency and wartime powers such as the Insurrection Act, the National Emergencies Act, and the Alien Enemies Act.

But Trump could invoke another law, the Insurrection Act, to order troops to directly arrest migrants, said Lindsay Cohn, an associate professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War ...

There is much the act allows, and much it does not. And while it remains a keystone in how the military can be deployed domestically, it can still be trumped by another, even older law: The ...

Although active-duty troops have been sent to the border by administrations of both parties, including the Biden ...