The Insurrection Act. What Is The Law Trump Is Threatening To Invoke?
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2020-06-02
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What Is The Insurrection Act That Trump Is Threatening To Invoke?
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President Trump walks from the White House to visit St. John's Church after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd.
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President Trump threatened Monday to take military action in American cities if the violent demonstrations that have been taking place in recent days aren't stamped out.
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To do that, the president would need to invoke what's known as the Insurrection Act of 1807.
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The act was last invoked in 1992 to quell the Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, a black man, and before that in 1989 during widespread looting in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, after Hurricane Hugo.
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Trump Says He'll Deploy Military To States If They Don't Stop Violent Protests
Before invoking it, the president "must first issue a proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse within a limited
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President Trump walks from the White House to visit St. John's Church after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd.
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President Trump threatened Monday to take military action in American cities if the violent demonstrations that have been taking place in recent days aren't stamped out.
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To do that, the president would need to invoke what's known as the Insurrection Act of 1807.
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The act was last invoked in 1992 to quell the Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, a black man, and before that in 1989 during widespread looting in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, after Hurricane Hugo.
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Trump Says He'll Deploy Military To States If They Don't Stop Violent Protests
Before invoking it, the president "must first issue a proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse within a limited
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