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The Insurrection Act empowers a president to deploy federal military forces and federalize state militias to suppress insurrections, enforce federal law, and protect constitutional rights when ordinar...
The name "" refers to multiple jurists across history; the most prominent living figure in federal service is , a U.S. district judge for the appointed in 2001 . Historical and state‑level judges with...
Lawyers, legal organizations and advocacy groups have advanced a clustered set of legislative fixes aimed at narrowing presidential authority to deploy federal forces at home: proposals generally seek...
Recent reform efforts aim to cabin presidential authority under the Insurrection Act by layering procedural guards: mandatory consultations with state and federal lawmakers, near-immediate reporting a...
A range of reforms from academics, legal groups, and Democratic lawmakers would narrow when and how a president may invoke the Insurrection Act, add time limits and reporting or congressional-approval...
If the president explicitly invoked the Insurrection Act in 2026, federal courts would apply a mix of statutory text, historic practice, constitutional limits, and evolving standards from recent refor...
is a statutory exception to the general prohibition on using the federal military for domestic law enforcement: it authorizes the president to federalize militias or deploy regular armed forces to sup...
Multiple legislative and expert proposals seek to narrow and check presidential authority under the Insurrection Act by clarifying when troops may be deployed domestically, inserting time limits, requ...
Abolition advocates argue that the Sex Offender Registry (SOR/SORNA) is ineffective at reducing sexual violence, imposes severe collateral punishments that hinder reintegration, and operates on fear-d...
Congress last made substantive, enduring amendments to the Insurrection Act in the 19th century (1861, 1871, with a minor 1874 change); later 20th–21st century activity has been limited to short-lived...
Statutory safeguards shape but do not wholly block prosecutions of retired military officers who hold public office: the Posse Comitatus Act limits use of federal forces for domestic law enforcement a...