Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. National Guardsmen on duty in Los Angeles in 1992. Here's a closer look at the seldom-used law and when U.S. Presidents have ...

The Insurrection Act is a US law that allows the president to use the military inside the country in extreme emergencies.

The Insurrection Act notoriously confers on the president extraordinarily broad authority to call out the militia or the armed forces to meet (depending on the context) “insurrections,” “rebellion,” ...

President Donald Trump is considering using the Insurrection Act to deploy the military in Minneapolis as protests continue. The protests follow the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal agent during ...

As protesters and federal law enforcement clashed in Minneapolis in the wake of a second shooting of a civilian on Jan. 14, 2026 by federal agents, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the ...

Jennifer Serafyn, Dawn Solowey and Sam Schwartz-Fenwick are labor and employment law attorneys at Seyfarth. Serafyn is former chief of the civil rights unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the ...