Insurrection Act

The Insurrection Act is a set of federal laws that can be invoked by the U.S. president to authorize the deployment of federal military forces, including the National Guard, to respond to domestic insurrections or serious civil unrest.

The Insurrection Act authorizes the President of the United States to deploy active-duty military forces into a state to suppress insurrections or enforce federal law when state authorities are unable or unwilling to do so.

The Insurrection Act of the United States grants the President authority to use federal troops to address civil unrest and to carry out law-enforcement-like activities.

The Insurrection Act authorizes a U.S. president to deploy active-duty military to states that are unable to suppress an insurrection or are defying federal law.

A 2006 Congressional Research Service report states that before invoking the Insurrection Act the president must first call for the 'insurgents' to disperse, and if stability is not restored the president may then issue an executive order to deploy troops.

Former President George H.W. Bush formally invoked the Insurrection Act in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots with the consent of California.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 authorizes the President of the United States to federalize National Guard units and deploy U.S. military forces nationally under specific circumstances, including insurrection.

The Insurrection Act is an 1807 U.S. law that grants the president emergency powers to deploy military forces on U.S. soil.

Under the Insurrection Act, the president may deploy military forces to states to quell widespread public unrest and to support civilian law enforcement agencies.

The Insurrection Act, enacted in 1807, authorizes the President of the United States to deploy U.S. military forces domestically to suppress insurrection or domestic unrest without requiring state approval.

When the Insurrection Act is invoked, federal forces, including the National Guard when federalized, can be authorized to exercise law enforcement powers comparable to those of local police officers.

The Insurrection Act is a federal law enacted in 1807 that authorizes the president to deploy the U.S. military on American soil in certain circumstances.

U.S. Code provisions of the Insurrection Act authorize the president to federalize a state's militia and use such of the armed forces as the president deems necessary when the president determines that unlawful obstructions, combinations, assemblages, or rebellion make it impracticable to enforce the laws; one section allows the president to call in troops at the request of a state legislature or governor (if the legislature cannot be convened), while two other sections do not require state consent.

The Insurrection Act operates as a statutory exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, which generally prohibits federal troops from conducting civilian law enforcement.