Trump cited the Insurrection Act of 1807 as legal justification for sending troops into states. Here's what to know about the 213-year-old law.

The Insurrection Act of 1807, a rarely used law, allows the president to utilize federal military troops or federalize National Guard troops in order to suppress uncontrollable protests or other ...

There are circumstances where a president can do so under the Insurrection Act of 1807, which has been amended several times in the years since. According to the law, ...

Still, his actions — along with his rhetoric, which has been echoed by several of his aides — raised concerns that he could invoke the Insurrection Act, a group of statutes approved by ...

This is the common name for statutes enacted by Congress — in 1792, 1795, 1807, 1861 and 1871 — governing when the U.S. president can use military force in response to an array of domestic crises.

Trump needs you to believe there's a border 'emergency' so he can deport anyone | Opinion President Donald Trump seems ready to wield the Insurrection Act of 1807, even if he's lying about all of ...

He specifically cites one option—"including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807." The Act is outlined in a series of statutes under Title 10 of the U.S. States Code, with some of them ...

The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to deploy military forces inside the U.S. to suppress rebellion or enforce the law in certain situations, Law and policy organization the Brennan ...

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the Insurrection Act of 1807 is actually an "amalgamation of different statutes enacted by Congress between 1792 and 1871."This gives the President of ...

As the 90-day deadline approaches for a report on the U.S.–Mexico border crisis, speculation has grown over whether President Donald Trump will invoke the centuries-old Insurrection Act of 1807.

Great Britain also banned the African slave trade in 1807. But the trade of African slaves to Brazil and Cuba continued until the 1860s. By 1865, some 12 million Africans had been shipped across ...

There is an interesting key that explains the early 1807 Ithaca village map created by Simeon DeWitt. The map has been around for a long time showing DeWitt’s plan; it's a pen and ink sketch ...