Over 1 In 4 U.S Presidents Have Used The Insurrection Act – Now President Trump Should, Too.

https://thenationalpulse.com ^ | 08.31.2020 | RAHEEM KASSAM

[rxsid]

Over 1 In 4 U.S Presidents Have Used The Insurrection Act – Now President Trump Should, Too.

The Act, originally signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807, provides President Trump with the ability to tackle the clear attempts at insurrection taking place in the United States today. In fact 12 U.S. Presidents have used it, from Jefferson himself to John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush during the Los Angeles riots.

If Trump dithers or delays further, the Biden campaign’s latest attempt to portray the violence as Trump’s fault may start to take hold.

“TRUMP RIOTS”

Clearly President Trump’s solid base won’t reject him on November 3rd, but there are people – especially female voters (mothers) – who are concerned this violence will spread to their suburbs and that the President needs to act before it does.

MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch laid out the Democrats’ “branding” exercise in trying to bring violence to ordinary people and then blaming Trump for not doing anything about it

AntiFa and Black Lives Matter have already begun running through residential neighborhoods in cities like Washington, D.C., screaming “if we don’t get no justice, you don’t get no sleep.”

How long can it be before they’re knocking on doors, breaking through windows, smashing cars and other private property?

[rxsid]

insurrection - an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence.

 

Trump has the Authority. Its right there, enshrined in the Constitution followed by federal law.

Supremacy Clause

Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution is commonly referred to as the Supremacy Clause. It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions. It prohibits states from interfering with the federal government's exercise of its constitutional powers, and from assuming any functions that are exclusively entrusted to the federal government.

Regarding the federal government's constitutional powers...

U.S Constitution - Article 4, Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

10 U.S. Code CHAPTER 13—INSURRECTION

10 U.S. Code §?252.Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority

Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.

10 U.S. Code §?253.Interference with State and Federal law

The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

(1)so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or

(2)opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.

In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.

The president has the authority to safeguard the Constitutional rights of United States citizens within the territory of the United States where the state &/or local governments fail those United States citizens.

Past presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act 19 times, both with the request of the Governor of the affected state, and without their request. Note that every one of those 19 previous invocations of the act, were due to violence or disorder in a single city or single state/territory. President Trump invoking the act due to NATION WIDE violence, looting, arson and depravity of civil rights is certainly lawful and warranted.

List of invocations of Insurrection Act

Date of invocation	Invoking President	State requested?	Affected area	Occasion
April 19, 1808	Thomas Jefferson		Lake Champlain	Embargo Act violations[7]
August 23, 1831	Andrew Jackson	Yes	Norfolk, Virginia	Nat Turner's slave rebellion[10]
January 28, 1834	Andrew Jackson	Yes	Williamsport, Maryland	Labor dispute by workers on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal[11]
October 17, 1871	Ulysses S. Grant	No	South Carolina	Suppression of Ku Klux Klan[12]
September 15, 1872	Ulysses S. Grant	No	New Orleans, Louisiana	Unrest following 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election[13]
May 13, 1874	Ulysses S. Grant	Yes	Little Rock, Arkansas	Brooks–Baxter War [14]
October 7, 1878	Rutherford B. Hayes	Yes	Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory	Lincoln County War[15]
July 7, 1894	Grover Cleveland	Yes	Chicago, Illinois	Pullman Strike[16][17]
April 28, 1914	Woodrow Wilson	Yes[18]	Colorado	Colorado Coalfield War[19]
July 22, 1943	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Yes	Detroit, Michigan	1943 Detroit race riot[20]
September 24, 1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower	No	Little Rock, Arkansas	To protect Little Rock Nine[21]:8
September 30, 1962	John F. Kennedy	No	Oxford, Mississippi	Ole Miss riot of 1962[7]:13
September 10, 1963	John F. Kennedy	No	Alabama	Enforce desegregation orders on Alabama public schools[7]:13
July 24, 1967	Lyndon B. Johnson	Yes	Detroit, Michigan	1967 Detroit riot[22]
April 5, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	Yes	Washington, D.C.	1968 Washington, D.C., riots[23]
April 7, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	Yes	Baltimore, Maryland	Baltimore riot of 1968[24]
April 7, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	Yes	Chicago, Illinois	1968 Chicago riots[25]
September 1989	George H. W. Bush	Yes	Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands	Disorder following Hurricane Hugo[26]
May 1, 1992	George H. W. Bush	Yes	Los Angeles County, California	1992 Los Angeles riots[27]

 

Notice something about the incidents where the states did NOT ask for help, but the feds went in anyway? ALL having to do with race/race relations.

 

Prior to the 1807 Insurrection Act, President Washington used his federal authority and personally lead nearly 13,000 militia to put down a rebelion on the enactment of an excise tax.

Whiskey Rebellion

In January 1791, President George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton proposed a seemingly innocuous excise tax "upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same."1 What Congress failed to predict was the vehement rejection of this tax by Americans living on the frontier of Western Pennsylvania. By 1794, the Whiskey Rebellion threatened the stability of the nascent United States and forced President Washington to personally lead the United States militia westward to stop the rebels.

George Washington reviewing the troops being deployed against the Whiskey Rebellion - Washington Reviewing the Western Army, at Fort Cumberland, Maryland, ca.1795.

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However, by 1794 the protests became violent. In July, nearly 400 whiskey rebels near Pittsburgh set fire to the home of John Neville, the regional tax collection supervisor. Left with little recourse and at the urgings of Secretary Hamilton, Washington organized a militia force of 12,950 men and led them towards Western Pennsylvania, warning locals "not to abet, aid, or comfort the Insurgents aforesaid, as they will answer the contrary at their peril.

The calling of the militia had the desired effect of essentially ending the Whiskey Rebellion. By the time the militia reached Pittsburgh, the rebels had dispersed and could not be found. The militia apprehended approximately 150 men and tried them for treason. A paucity of evidence and the inability to obtain witnesses hampered the trials. Two men, John Mitchell and Philip Weigel, were found guilty of treason, though both were pardoned by President Washington. By 1802, then President Thomas Jefferson repealed the excise tax on whiskey.

[1Old Pro]

Like RUSH is saying, the President is not going to blow his cool on this. Everyone knows it’s the Dems ruing their own cities.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

“Over 1 In 4”

Uhhh what?

[cuban leaf]

And just trying to protect federal buildings in Portland got them to accuse him of bringing out the jack boot thugs. They are just daring him to act unilaterally. Maybe after the election, but until then, they have to ask for his help. He’s made that abundantly clear.

[Celerity]

I love our president Donald Trump BECAUSE he is not a politician. He isn’t handling this like any other president before him, he is handling it as a fresh, highly intelligent business man.

Recently a shady ex investor has released MY software. And while everyone is yelling me act swiftly, my method is to let them sink themselves. Something from the pages of The Art of the Deal.

[sauropod]

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[billyboy15]

There was a reason he bothered to mention the Insurrection Act.

He has both warned the Governors of the States experiencing the riots they must do something and also let them know what would happen should they continue to do nothing.

Trump threw the ball on their side of the net and it is now up to them to take action or face the consequences.

[immadashell]

… the Biden campaign’s latest attempt to portray the violence as Trump’s fault may start to take hold.

AntiFa and Black Lives Matter have already begun running through residential neighborhoods in cities like Washington, D.C.

If I can make the distinction why can’t the media.

[HarleyD]

If Trump dithers or delays further, the Biden campaign’s latest attempt to portray the violence as Trump’s fault may start to take hold.

Never happen. That is exactly what the left wants to say Trump is taking over. The Democrats are for open borders, defunding the police, releasing prisoners, soft on crime, etc. All Trump has to do is keep offering to send in troops and have the Democrats reject it. We're two months from the election. Wait until after the election.

[DIRTYSECRET]

It’s easy. No federal troops. Just federalize the local cops and then issue an executive order with the following instructions: “No More Mister Nice Guy”.

[1Old Pro]

All Trump has to do is keep offering to send in troops and have the Democrats reject it.

Exactly, just because the media thinks their and their Dems lies will change reality, ain't gonna happen.

[George from New England]

OCTOBER SURPRISE. We can only pray.

[dgbrown]

“Clearly President Trump’s solid base won’t reject him on November 3rd, but there are people – especially female voters (mothers) – who are concerned this violence will spread to their suburbs”

Are these the same ones who have been screaming and yelling for Trump to come save their city because their mayors and governors are incompetent? Yup, they were going to vote for Trump too.

[avenir]

“He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making. His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.”

Psalm 7:15-16

Lots of this truth in the Psalms and Proverbs.

[cuban leaf]

I have a feeling a LOT of them are going to face the consequences after the election. Perhaps the very next day.

[Karoo]

Pres Trump is having his press briefing today at 5:30.

[DownInFlames]

Need at least 1,000 rounds by October 15.

[Robert357]

Bump for reference

[The Duke]

All Trump has to do is keep offering to send in troops and have the Democrats reject it. We're two months from the election. Wait until after the election.

I tend to agree. (Where's the 'like button' when you need it? :) )