Experts told PBS News that worries about the Insurrection Act arise from legal uncertainty about how it can be applied.

Not long ago, when President Donald Trump talked about sending troops off to San Francisco to “make it great again,” he said ...

When invoked, the Insurrection Act gives the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military or National Guard inside the country to suppress events such as rebellion, insurrection and civil ...

Trump floated the idea in early October as he considered sending National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, and repeated it ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- For weeks, President Donald Trump has threatened to send the National Guard to Chicago. He is now doing it, and is considering using a law enacted more than two centuries ago to ...

The 1807 law, which allows the military to conduct civilian law enforcement activities under certain circumstances, hasn’t ...

On Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border. The order requires both the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of ...

As the 90-day deadline approaches for a report on the U.S.–Mexico border crisis, speculation has grown over whether President Donald Trump will invoke the centuries-old Insurrection Act of 1807. The ...

EASTON -- The nearly full moon was setting as dawn arrived on Dec. 14, 1807. It was Monday, and farmers in what was then Weston were already up tending to their livestock. Suddenly, to the north, a ...

The red sweater appears as if it was purchased yesterday – but it's been more than 200 years since the handmade gift has seen the light of day. Archivists opened parcels from the Anne-Marie cargo ship ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Elizabeth Goitein, who codirects the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty & National Security Program, about the 1807 Insurrection Act and presidential emergency powers.