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Common-law or statute law authority of a county sheriff, or other law officer, to conscript any able-bodied man to assist him in keeping the peace or to pursue and arrest a felon
The Insurrection Act was the legal instrument behind President George H.W. Bush’s decision to federalize California National Guard units and authorize federal forces during the 1992 Los Angeles unrest...
Reporting does not substantiate a clear-cut claim that the so-called “green gas” used in Minnesota is categorically “poisonous” or that it is expressly “forbidden” to the U.S. military; local court or...
President Trump has deployed or sought to deploy National Guard and, at times, federalized troops to multiple Democratic-led cities this year — including Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; Portland; Chica...
Title 32 keeps National Guard units under state control while often using federal funding, producing a hybrid status that preserves gubernatorial command but extends federal pay and benefits . Title 1...
Since 2020, appellate courts and legal commentators have repeatedly underscored that U.S. service members may refuse only “patently” or “manifestly” unlawful orders and that the law presumes military ...