What is the Insurrection Act which Trump keeps threatening to use?
Donald Trump
Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, giving him sweeping presidential powers over the deployment of the military in the US. "Well, it's been invoked before," he said, when speaking to reporters this week. He repeatedly suggested he might invoke it during his first term - but never did. What is the Insurrection Act? It gives the president the power to deploy the military or federalise National Guard troops inside the US to tackle domestic uprisings. It can be invoked when
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