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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: libertybele on June 26, 2020, 05:26:19 pm

Title: For 200 years, the Insurrection Act has given presidents the power to deploy the military to quell u
Post by: libertybele on June 26, 2020, 05:26:19 pm

The article is a little dated, but worthy of posting.

For 200 years, the Insurrection Act has given presidents the power to deploy the military to quell unrest


....."as federal law enforcement officers fired rubber bullets and chemical gas at protesters outside the White House, President Trump stood in the Rose Garden and issued a threat. If the nation’s governors don’t call up National Guard troops to “dominate the streets,” Trump said, “I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.” After Trump made the threat, three words began trending on Twitter: the Insurrection Act.

No, this is not the title of a Netflix series. It’s an actual law dating to 1807.

Originally signed by Thomas Jefferson and amended over the years, it states: “Whenever there is an insurrection in any State against its government, the President may, upon the request of its legislature or of its governor if the legislature cannot be convened,” send in military troops.

In case governors don’t comply with Trump’s demands, one provision of the law, passed in 1956, gives him the power to act unilaterally: “Whenever the President considers unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws … in any State … he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.”...............

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/03/insurrection-act-trump-history/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/03/insurrection-act-trump-history/)

Title: Re: For 200 years, the Insurrection Act has given presidents the power to deploy the military to que
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on June 26, 2020, 05:39:20 pm

He needs to toughen up then.