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Desegregation

The use of the Insurrection Act by presidents to enforce desegregation orders.

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Jan 28, 2026
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How many presidents invoked the insurrection act

has been used intermittently across history: sources tally roughly 30 invocations over time and attribute those invocations to between 15 and 17 different presidents, depending on how one counts dispu...

Jan 19, 2026
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What specific court cases have enjoined presidential troop deployments under the Insurrection Act in the 20th and 21st centuries?

Federal courts in the 20th century rarely enjoined presidential uses of the Insurrection Act, which was instead used to enforce federal desegregation orders and to quell major riots (e.g., Eisenhower ...