![]() ![]() The Act was most recently during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and during Hurricane Hugo in 1989 when widespread looting was reported in St. The Insurrection Act has been invoked a number of times in the history of the United States to quell civil disturbances. This series of amendments to the Act certainly suggest a congressional intent to narrow the scope of what qualifies as a triggering insurrection. It says that the president may issue an executive order to send in troops if the situation does not resolve itself. However, the president must first issue a proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse within a limited time, according to a Congressional Research Service report published in 2006. This means the Insurrection Act empowers the president to deploy US Armed Forces and National Guard, at the request of a state government, to suppress an insurrection or “domestic violence”.Īlso Read | Who were they? Records reveal Trump fans who stormed Capitol A law called the Posse Comitatus Act restricts the use of the military in domestic law enforcement and the Insurrection Act provides a “statutory exception” to those limitations. Under normal circumstances, governors of states are responsible to maintain law and order within state boundaries. Since then, the law has undergone several amendments and it now empowers the president to send military forces to quell unrest and support civil law enforcement. For better or worse, martial law has been declared 68 times in the U.S. The memo was focussed on US president’s capability to take control of the city’s Metropolitan Police Department by invoking 214-year-old law - Insurrection Act of 1807.Īccording to The Washington Post, the Insurrection Act was framed during the era of Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers and third president of the United States, to prevent a suspected rebellion by his former deputy Aaron Burr. ![]() US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 US presidential election results by the Congress, in Washington.(REUTERS)Īccording to a Buzzfeed report, the DC Attorney General’s office shared a memo with the 13-member City Council during a closed briefing last week. Ahead of the certification of Electoral College and President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, elected officials of District of Columbia were reportedly analysing the risk of similar threat. Signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807, the Insurrection Act empowers the American president and commander in chief to deploy military troops within the U.S. US President Donald Trump’s aide Roger Stone, a convicted felon, had last year suggested that the commander-in-chief should enforce martial law to seize power in case he loses the presidential election. ![]()
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