Article Title: What is the Insurrection Act? Here's what Trump has said about invoking it amid LA protests
Article Excerpt: "...The Insurrection Act is an 1807 law that empowers a president to deploy the U.S. military to suppress events like civil disorder.
“The Insurrection Act allows the president to deploy the military inside the United States and use it against Americans, making it one of the executive branch’s most potent emergency powers,” according to a 2022 report by the Brennan Center for Justice. ..."
Reference Source: www.usatoday.com
