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The Insurrection Act and its relation to recalling retired service members to active duty, including the role of the National Emergencies Act and Title 10 provisions.
The has been used sporadically across —beginning in the early republic and reappearing in reconstruction, labor disputes, civil‑rights enforcement and urban unrest—with presidents from through invokin...
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...
—often dated to 1807 but rooted in militia laws from 1792—has been invoked roughly 30 times in , a figure reported by multiple legal scholars and trackers though exact totals depend on counting conven...
Yes. Reporting shows publicly and repeatedly suggested against domestic targets — including talks of invoking the and “using the military” against political opponents or unrest — well before active-du...
The is a set of statutory authorities that permits the President to federalize forces and deploy the military domestically in narrow circumstances, but it is not the statutory mechanism for recalling ...