Could President-elect Donald Trump use the military within the United States to suppress protests on college campuses, patrol ...

The Insurrection Act would give Trump powers to use federal troops to enforce civilian laws, but he could be challenged in ...

I expect that on Day 1 — maybe within hours of being inaugurated on Jan. 20 — Trump will sign a proclamation invoking, say, ...

President-elect Donald Trump cannot legally use the nation's military as a border police force, unless he can invoke use of the Insurrection Act. The pre-Civil War Insurrection Act of 1807 gives a ...

By invoking the Insurrection Act — a little-known law that grants the president sweeping authority to deploy the military on American soil — he plans to do just that. We need to take steps now ...

Trump signaled this week that he would enlist the help of the U.S. military for his massive deportation operation.