Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, warning ...

President Donald Trump floated the possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act - one of the White House’s most potent emergency powers - once again this week. The centuries-old law enables a ...

A recent court ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, has led him to consider invoking the Insurrection Act, as he discussed with reporters ...

President Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, the architect of his immigration crackdown, have repeatedly used the word “insurrection” to describe the protests in Los Angeles, hinting they might invoke a ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump says he’d consider invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to fight crime and battle protesters in Democratic-controlled cities. “I’d do it if it was necessary," if ...

The use of the military to quell protests is something associated with dictators in foreign countries, and as of Saturday night, with a president of the United States. When President Trump federalized ...