Jefferson wrote that Norfolk must be destroyed. Months later, Patriots burned much of the city themselves — and blamed the ...

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to deploy the military if federal courts prevented him from deploying the National Guard to protect federal buildings ...

A recent court ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, has led him to consider invoking the Insurrection Act, as he discussed with reporters ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- For weeks, President Donald Trump has threatened to send the National Guard to Chicago. He is now doing it, and is considering using a law enacted more than two centuries ago to ...

President Donald Trump said he could legally invoke the Insurrection Act to tackle violent crime in Chicago and urged Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to "beg for help," intensifying the long-running ...

After a court blocked Donald Trump’s National Guard plans in Portland, talk of invoking the Insurrection Act resurfaced. After a court blocked Donald Trump’s National Guard plans in Portland, talk of ...

President Donald Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities.

"The Insurrection Act was actually passed in 1807, signed by Jefferson," said Laura I. Appleman, a law professor at Willamette University College of Law. "It essentially says that the president under ...

The president said he would invoke emergency powers to deploy the National Guard if “people were being killed, and courts were holding us up.” By Chris Cameron Reporting from Washington President ...