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The most recent widely acknowledged lawful invocation occurred in 1992 when President George H.W. Bush deployed federal forces during the Los Angeles riots.
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...
The has been used sporadically across —beginning in the early republic and reappearing in reconstruction, labor disputes, civil‑rights enforcement and urban unrest—with presidents from through invokin...
has been used intermittently across history: sources tally roughly 30 invocations over time and attribute those invocations to between 15 and 17 different presidents, depending on how one counts dispu...