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Reform proposals and legislative efforts since 2016, such as the CIVIL Act, seek to constrain unilateral presidential authority.
The Insurrection Act’s statutory text and long-standing executive and judicial practice constrain presidential power by spelling out three discrete triggers for federal military deployment—state reque...
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...
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...
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 ...
Service members are legally required to obey lawful orders and to refuse unlawful ones; that duty is rooted in the Uniform Code of Military Justice and military doctrine but is balanced against a high...