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The Bulwark: Will Trump Invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 Next?
The Bulwark - Will Trump Invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 Next?
Allow me to invite you down this rabbit hole of stupidity.
Adrian Carrasquillo
Apr 04, 2025
IF YOU’VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS NEWSLETTER, you already know that Trump is fixated on carrying out mass deportations, no matter what the law says—even as the economy falters and the stock market plunges following his imposition of tariffs on dozens of our trading partners, both real and imagined.
But it is my job to tell you that things could, technically, get stupider before they get better.
That’s because tucked away in section 6B of Trump’s day-one executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border was this pearl, which I’ve set in bold and italics so you can’t miss it:
Since we can assume the report from the secretaries will reflect Trump’s preferences, by the end of this month we’ll have a clear signal of the likelihood of his invoking the Insurrection Act—a previously unfathomable step that would dramatically escalate the administration’s already deeply controversial detention and deportation efforts.
The Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the president to deploy U.S. armed forces and the national guard against Americans in situations of civil unrest, was last invoked in 1992 to put down the Rodney King riots after the four white police officers who were filmed beating King were acquitted. The nonpartisan Brennan Center has called the law “dangerously overbroad and ripe for abuse.”
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Allow me to invite you down this rabbit hole of stupidity.
Adrian Carrasquillo
Apr 04, 2025
IF YOU’VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS NEWSLETTER, you already know that Trump is fixated on carrying out mass deportations, no matter what the law says—even as the economy falters and the stock market plunges following his imposition of tariffs on dozens of our trading partners, both real and imagined.
But it is my job to tell you that things could, technically, get stupider before they get better.
That’s because tucked away in section 6B of Trump’s day-one executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border was this pearl, which I’ve set in bold and italics so you can’t miss it:
Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.
Since we can assume the report from the secretaries will reflect Trump’s preferences, by the end of this month we’ll have a clear signal of the likelihood of his invoking the Insurrection Act—a previously unfathomable step that would dramatically escalate the administration’s already deeply controversial detention and deportation efforts.
The Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the president to deploy U.S. armed forces and the national guard against Americans in situations of civil unrest, was last invoked in 1992 to put down the Rodney King riots after the four white police officers who were filmed beating King were acquitted. The nonpartisan Brennan Center has called the law “dangerously overbroad and ripe for abuse.”
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