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Posted on 01/15/2026 3:16:51 PM PST by Mariner
President Trump threatened on Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act for the first time in more than three decades and deploy the U.S. military to Minneapolis to “quickly put an end” to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement that have grown since an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good last week.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump wrote on social media.
The president has mentioned the rarely used 1807 law before. Last October, he told reporters "we have an Insurrection Act for a reason," adding that “if people were being killed, and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I’d do that” — meaning flood Democrat-led cities with federal troops to enforce his administration’s controversial mass deportation raids. Earlier, during Trump’s first term, aides reportedly drafted a proclamation to invoke the act as he fumed over the 2020 racial justice protests.
But Trump has never actually followed through on his Insurrection Act threats, and for good reason: Legal experts say that turning the U.S. military on today’s anti-ICE protesters would be unprecedented — and unpopular.
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Specifically it was designed to allow the federal government to enforce federal law when the local jurisdictions are actively opposed. And it's important for people to understand that.
Most recently it was used by Bush I to protect private property in the ghetto during the Rodney King riots in 1992. Democrats and media were totally cool with that.
Trump want to use it to protect federal personnel, federal property and to enforce federal law against organized, physical opposition and obstruction.
How much more worthy an application is that?
Trump needs to take-over the MSP pubic schools....
Hey, it’s Yahoo News. Sure, they have an interesting name. But like every leftist news source, they believe that only Democrats can take bold action.
JFK invoked the Insurrection Act three times, all during the civil rights movement to enforce federal desegregation orders. He used it in 1962 to secure the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi amid violent resistance, and twice in 1963 to enforce school integration in Alabama, notably during the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident at the University of Alabama. These actions were taken over the objections of state governors who resisted integration following the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision. The use of the Act underscored federal authority in protecting constitutional rights when state officials obstructed justice
President Dwight D. Eisenhower invoked the Insurrection Act in 1957 during the Little Rock crisis in Arkansas. He used it to federalize the Arkansas National Guard and deploy the 101st Airborne Division to enforce the desegregation of Central High School, following resistance from Governor Orval Faubus.
This action was taken to uphold the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education and protect the Little Rock Nine, the nine Black students attempting to integrate the school. Eisenhower's use of the Insurrection Act was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement, asserting federal authority over state defiance of constitutional rights.
“they believe that only Democrats can take bold action.”
Exactly.
In fact the President has taken a lot of different bold actions in the past year.
One more would be great.
The lesson of all this is keep taking bold actions in rapid fire.
The leftist outrage machine will then have a short attention span as the administration moves on to the next hot topic.
Flood the zone!
Yahoo drivel...”rarely used” is opinion and not fact.
A STEARN letter might work.
“””Yahoo drivel...”rarely used” is opinion and not fact.””
It needs to be used because “rarely” do we have to deal people as stupid as Walz and Small Frey.
When Bush I last invoked it, there was no federal law at stake.
And there was little, if any objection.
Exactly—normally governors and mayors are not wackadoodle enough to impede federal law enforcement missions.
Reminds me of being a kid and dad or mom said dont make me stop this car and we didn’t stop until they did.
The purpose for the Insurrection Act is to put a stop to lawlessness and sedition. And that is exactly what the Left is engaging in right now. They’re trying to use engineered chaos to make the country ungovernable. Scoop them all up and toss them in jail. And if they decide to get violent again, shoot them. End of story.
unpopular? I voted for this. One does not get to pick and choose which laws they want to follow.
If the actions of invoking the Insurrection act is not possible, cut off funding to the ‘sanctuary states’.
“Flood the zone!”
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS.
The fire hydrants can be opened by just one turn of the top-nut. The hyrants don’t need to be opened fully.
Cities often do this for the neighborhood kids in the summer.!
>https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4360775/posts
Meant to say no sense reinventing the wheel, here is the link you seek
Yahoo is definitely Democrat Propaganda
But only about 99% of the time 😂🤣😛
17 U.S. presidents have officially invoked the Insurrection Act since its creation in 1807. The act has been used in 30 documented instances throughout U.S. history.
Civil War and Reconstruction: President Abraham Lincoln used the Act at the start of the Civil War to suppress the Confederate rebellion. President Ulysses S. Grant invoked it multiple times during Reconstruction—up to eight times by some counts—to combat groups like the Ku Klux Klan and enforce civil rights in the South.
another question: who is: Andrew Romano (who wrote this article)
I report on politics and national affairs from Los Angeles, where I live with my wife and kids (and play in a band called Massage). Prior to joining Yahoo I covered three presidential campaigns and authored numerous cover stories for Newsweek. I also wrote about television, music and film for The Daily Beast.
I wonder if he knows anyone who doesn’t live in LA?
Do it. Yesterday....
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