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Ulysses S. Grant's use of the Insurrection Act to deploy troops and federalize state forces against the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction era.
Ulysses S. Grant repeatedly relied on the Insurrection Act and related federal powers in the early 1870s to deploy troops and federalize state forces against violent white-supremacist organizations—mo...
Federal — especially the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and the Enforcement Act of 1871 (commonly called the Ku Klux Act) — created explicit federal criminal authority, authorized use of troops, and allowed...
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...
Yes — mainstream, credible news outlets have reported that a sitting U.S. president was arrested: multiple recent accounts describe newspaper and institutional reporting that President Ulysses S. Gran...