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

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The Burr–Jefferson conflict is one of those moments where personal rivalry, constitutional uncertainty, and fears of ...

The Insurrection Act allows a president to deploy military forces if a state is unable to suppress an insurrection or is defying federal law.

In a Fox News interview this past weekend, President Donald Trump claimed that invoking the Insurrection Act would allow him ...

President Donald Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has ...

President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he could invoke the 1807 statute, which gives the president the power to deploy ...

As courts grapple with President Donald Trump's attempt to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, he could invoke a ...

Kuzminski with the Center for a New American Security said the president has broad authority to invoke the Insurrection Act. But after Democratic-led states inevitably sue in court, a judge would ...

President Trump and several others now high up in his second administration have been talking about using the National Guard to help with mass deportations — and possibly invoking the Insurrection Act ...

Presidents have invoked this throughout history -- but normally not against the wishes of local leaders except to enforce federal law.

Last week, Trump floated invoking the Insurrection Act at least two times over as many days, saying “we have an Insurrection ...