Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act Against Anti-ICE Demonstrators in Minnesota’s Twin Cities
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The Insurrection Act empowers the president to deploy the US military domestically to suppress civil unrest.

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a federal law that allows presidents to deploy the U.S. military domestically under certain circumstances, purportedly to help enforce local law enforcement amid civil unrest. Trump baselessly claimed that military presence is necessary in Minnesota’s Twin Cities to quell protests against his administration’…

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