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The legal implications and interpretations of insurrection in U.S. law following the January 6 events, including criminal offenses, executive powers, and constitutional disqualifications.
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 Insurrection Act, a federal statute first enacted in 1807, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize deployment of federal troops or federalization of state militias to su...
The has been a sporadically used but consequential statutory doorway for presidents to deploy federal troops on soil — invoked about 30 times across 230 years and most recently in 1992 during the riot...
Across roughly 230 years, presidents have invoked the about 30 times for a range of crises—from full-scale rebellion to racial violence, labor disputes, and episodes of civil unrest—and those invocati...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked roughly 30 times in U.S. history, but those invocations split into two clear categories: episodes that produced significant, on‑the‑ground federal troop deploymen...