Insurrection Act: How it's been used and what Trump wants to do
AP News • • nation
Key Points:
- Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to send U.S. military forces to Minnesota amid protests, a move experts say would be unprecedented as the law is rarely used without local requests or clear insurrections.
- The Insurrection Act, dating back to 1792, allows presidents to deploy military forces domestically to suppress uprisings or enforce federal laws, historically used during events like the Civil War and Civil Rights Movement.
- Experts argue the current situation in Minneapolis does not meet the traditional criteria for invoking the Act, noting that violence has been partly instigated by federal officers already deployed there, complicating the justification for further military intervention.
- Historically, the Act has been used to protect civil rights and quell significant unrest when
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