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Congress currently holds the statute that created the Insurrection Act and has been repeatedly urged by legal groups to amend it, but under current law Congress has no automatic, immediate power to “o...
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...
A careful review of the reporting provided finds no public court filing or Department of Justice (DOJ) statement in 2026, within these sources, that explicitly refers to an arrest warrant for Donald J...
President Trump’s pardons and rank restorations for service members accused or convicted of war crimes provoked sharp division: senior Pentagon leaders and many legal and veterans’ organizations warne...
ICE agents commonly use face coverings—most visibly neck gaiters and other masks—during domestic enforcement operations, a practice the agency and DHS defend as protection against doxxing and threats ...
The Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) generally bars the use of active-duty federal military forces to execute domestic law, while the Insurrection Act is the principal statutory exception that allows the Pre...
The Insurrection Act permits the president to deploy federal troops or federalize state militias when there is an insurrection, rebellion, “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages,” or whe...
The Trump administration’s immigration policies produced concentrated harms for women of color by accelerating deportations and enforcement, shrinking access to humanitarian relief and public benefits...
Congressional authorization would need to be explicit and tied to the use of lethal military force—either through a formal declaration of war or a narrowly drawn Authorization for the Use of Military ...
U.S. law already criminalizes unlawful entry and provides extensive civil-removal authorities under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), and the federal government in 2025 moved aggressively to ...
Project 2025’s immigration blueprint proposes sweeping expansions of expedited removal, mass deportations, revoking or pausing statuses (DACA, TPS, T/U visas, Diversity Visa), deputizing local police,...
No reported case in the provided sources shows a person born abroad to foreign-born parents being judicially declared a “natural-born citizen” eligible for the U.S. presidency; scholarship and governm...
Independent studies and commentators estimate the Jones Act imposes an annual cost on Puerto Rico ranging from about $1.1 billion to $1.5 billion; several recent reports and op-eds commonly cite a $1....
ICE says everyone it arrests receives due process and that removals happen under lawful orders . Yet a wide range of legal filings, advocacy reports, local journalism and court actions allege patterns...
Several former Trump aides and conservative movement figures—many tied to Project 2025 and to key agency nominations—played visible roles shaping 2025 policy and legislation via executive orders, regu...
Posthumous honors and pardons for military figures rest on a mix of constitutional clemency power, state executive clemency rules, historical practice of presidential pardons for military-related case...