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Insurrection Act Invocations

The Insurrection Act has been invoked in response to 30 distinct crises over the past two centuries.

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Jan 17, 2026
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Which presidents used the insurrection act

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...

Jan 18, 2026
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Which specific 30 incidents prompted invocations of the Insurrection Act and which presidents issued each proclamation?

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...

Jan 17, 2026
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Which specific presidents and dates correspond to each of the roughly 30 invocations of the Insurrection Act?

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...

Jan 16, 2026

How do historians and legal scholars count and categorize presidential invocations of the Insurrection Act, and why do their totals differ?

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...

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