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The 1992 Los Angeles riots were a series of riots that occurred in Los Angeles, California, in response to the acquittal of four white police officers who had beaten a black motorist.
The Insurrection Act, a set of statutes dating to the early republic, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize federal military intervention on American soil; those invocatio...
The Insurrection Act, a federal statute first enacted in 1807, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize deployment of federal troops or federalization of state militias to su...
has been a narrowly used but potent presidential tool in the 20th and 21st centuries: presidents most notably invoked it during the to enforce federal court orders, deployed it in a handful of large d...
The Insurrection Act is a federal statute that authorizes the president to call out the U.S. military and federalize National Guard forces to suppress insurrection, enforce federal law, or protect civ...
BORTAC (Border Patrol Tactical Unit) is the U.S. Border Patrol’s elite tactical arm, organized to respond to "emergent and high‑risk incidents" with specialized tactics and training and headquartered ...
The Insurrection Act has been used in the United States on roughly 30 separate occasions, but sources differ on how many presidents have formally invoked it: several reputable references count 15 pres...
The unrest in late May–June 2020 combined an unprecedented national and global scale of mobilization with localized episodes of intense destruction, making it both one of the broadest protest waves in...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked roughly 30 times over more than two centuries, by somewhere between 15 and 17 different presidents depending on how historians count partial or contested uses, an...
The Insurrection Act, enacted in 1807, has been invoked roughly 30 times by about 15 presidents to authorize deployment of federal military forces on U.S. soil in extreme crises; its use ranges from e...
A president can, under the Insurrection Act, federalize and deploy U.S. military forces inside a state—even over the objections of state officials—but only under statutorily defined circumstances and ...
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...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked roughly 30 times in U.S. history, but those invocations split into two clear categories: episodes that produced significant, on‑the‑ground federal troop deploymen...
Yes — in June 2025 protests erupted in Los Angeles after federal ICE raids and a proportion of those demonstrations involved clashes, property damage and arrests that many officials and some media des...