The House committee investigating the January 6th insurrection is talking about rewriting the 1807 Insurrection Act, which gives president wide authority to deploy the military within the United States to respond to a rebellion.
The discussions are preliminary, reported, as some see a doomsday type scenario where a future rogue president may try to use the military to stroke an insurrection but others worry about removing the power of a president to quickly deploy armed troops, as presidents did in the Civil War and civil rights eras.
never invoked the law as president. But he threatened to use it against protesters in Lafayette Square who were objecting to the police killing of .
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