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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 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...
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...