What is the Insurrection Act? Can Trump really use the military to 'put an end' to Minneapolis ICE protests?
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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