Insurrection Act

An expert explainer on when the President of the United States can 'federalize" the National Guard and deploy U.S. military forces domestically.

Invocation of the Insurrection Act in response to Texas' obstruction of CBP agents at the U.S.-Mexico border would be inappropriate.

What does that law say? How has DOJ used it in past? What alleged Trump conduct meets the elements of the crime?

Florida governor and U.S. presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has proposed action that would flout constitutional and statutory limits.

"Two amendments in the House-passed FY23 NDAA would close ... loopholes and make it harder for another Trump administration – or any future president – to abuse the powers…

The Justice Department’s current investigation of criminal efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election apparently is taking two paths. One investigative…

University of Chicago Law Professor Al Alschuler writes that the evidence is sufficient to indict Trump under Insurrection Act, 18 U.S. Code § 2383.

Section 516 of the NDAA is a commonsense reform that would prevent a president from borrowing the National Guard of a political ally to use it as a domestic police force in an…

A triangulation of evidence that extremists treated then-President Trump's words as instructions for the events on Jan. 6.

At one-year mark of Biden administration, top experts revisit proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government.

Pentagon restrained National Guard on Jan. 6 out of concern Trump would invoke Insurrection Act.

While Florida Gov. DeSantis' proposal is worrisome as a political matter, it is unlikely to pose the kind of threat his critics fear.