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The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law [1] that empowers the president of the United States to deploy the U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.
The Legal Insurrection Foundation, sometimes abbreviated LIF, [1] is an American not-for-profit organization founded in 2008 and based in Rhode Island. [2] The foundation is a conservative advocacy organization which focuses on free-speech and academic freedom issues.
Article I, Section 29, of the State Constitution is similar to Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, limiting the legal definition of "treason" to levying war against the State or giving "aid and comfort" to the enemies of the State. Conviction requires two witnesses to the act itself, or a confession in open court. [10]
Jacobson is author of the conservative law blog, Legal Insurrection, which was founded in 2008. [9] [10] As of July 2014, the TaxProf blog ranked Legal Insurrection as the third most visited blog run by a law professor for the year prior. [11]
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, facing federal charges of seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, is basing his legal defense on the Insurrection ...
The insurrection has spawned more than five lawsuits, all involving Trump. A group of House Democrats, some Capitol Police officers and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) ...
The Colorado Supreme Court found it unnecessary to define insurrection, instead holding that "it suffices for us to conclude that any definition of 'insurrection' for purposes of Section Three would encompass a concerted and public use of force or threat of force by a group of people to hinder or prevent the U.S. government from taking the ...
President Donald Trump announced he may invoke the Insurrection Act. Here's what it means.