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The Insurrection Act has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history by a minority of presidents to authorize the domestic use of federal military force in crises.
The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked in response to 30 distinct crises over the past two centuries, and those invocations were issued by a limited number of presidents (with one Army general acting o...
—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...
’s online Guide to Invocations of the reports that the statute has been used in response to 30 distinct crises since its origins, and the guide presents each incident with the date, the president who ...
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...
has been invoked roughly 30 times across history by a minority of presidents to authorize the domestic use of federal military force in crises ranging from early rebellions to , labor unrest, , and th...
Historians and legal scholars do not share a single roll call of Insurrection Act invocations because they apply different counting rules: some count every presidential proclamation or statutory precu...