What Trump can do if he invokes the Insurrection Act - The Globe and Mail

Published June 3, 2020Updated June 4, 2020

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to deploy the U.S. military to stop national protests over the killing of George Floyd and police brutality. The Insurrection Act of 1807 gives a president latitude to deploy troops domestically and was most recently used in 1992.

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