The Insurrection Act empowers the president to deploy the US military domestically to suppress civil unrest.
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“I’d be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn’t get involved,” Trump said.
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The president hinted that he may invoke the Insurrection Act to send the US military into San Francisco.
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“If I had to enact it, I’d do it,” Trump told reporters on Monday.
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The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control. People are likely to get hurt.
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Three strategies for public pressure in response are refusal, resistance and ridicule.
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