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A federal law that allows the president to deploy armed forces to suppress insurrection, enforce federal law, or protect civil rights.
A president cannot unilaterally suspend federal elections under a claim of martial law; constitutional text, statute, Supreme Court precedents, and expert legal analyses all place the power to alter o...
Three different legal regimes in U.S. law bear on the word “insurrection”: the criminal offense in 18 U.S.C. § 2383, the executive-deployment framework of the Insurrection Act of 1807, and the disqual...
The is a centuries‑old federal statute that authorizes the president to deploy federal troops or federalize National Guard units to assist in enforcing the law during insurrections, domestic violence,...
Federal prosecutors use C. § 111 to target individual acts that “forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with” s while they are performing official duties, and they use 18 U...
"against" a state legally means federalizing forces or using active-duty armed forces inside a state under statutory authority—primarily the —or responding under the Constitution’s guarantee to protec...
A prolonged National Guard presence in Washington, D.C., can proceed under several legal paths — primarily federalization under the Insurrection Act, Title 32 activations with federal funding but stat...