Tag Archives: Posse Comitatus Act of 1878

President Donald Trump this week repeatedly suggested he might invoke the Insurrection Act — a centuries-old law granting sweeping domestic powers to the commander in chief — to quell what he described as “lawlessness” in American cities, signaling a potential escalation in his administration’s approach to domestic unrest. “It’s been …

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that President Donald Trump violated a 19th-century law when his administration deployed thousands of troops to Los Angeles last June to assist in immigration enforcement and crowd control. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that the deployment of 4,000 California National Guard members and …