In a Fox News interview this past weekend, President Donald Trump claimed that invoking the Insurrection Act would allow him to have “unquestioned power,” and even suggested that it could be used to suspend court cases — despite nothing in the statute indicating as such. Trump has sent National Guard troops to a number of U.S. cities, ostensibly to assist other federal agents carrying out…
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He isn’t talking about what the rules say. The article might as well argue “the President doesn’t have the power to invoke tariffs, that’s Congress!” and they’d be technically right; and yet…