Opinion - Trump promised to be a dictator on Day 1: Here’s why the Insurrection Act blocks him
Could President-elect Donald Trump use the military within the United States to suppress protests on college campuses, patrol ...
Abcarian: Will Congress give Trump the ability to kill organizations like Planned Parenthood and ACLU?
A bill before the House would allow the administration to designate nonprofits whose work the president-elect opposes as ...
Donald Trump plans to use the U.S. military for mass deportations: Be scared, be very scared
I expect that on Day 1 — maybe within hours of being inaugurated on Jan. 20 — Trump will sign a proclamation invoking, say, ...
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Trump and his soldiers: How some defense leaders expect him to use the military
Defense officials say Trump could order troops to help with mass deportations, arrest citizens for civil disobedience and ...
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Trump’s plans to weaponize the military against protesters and immigrants face fewer legal constraints
Amidst preparations for his second presidential term, Donald Trump’s ambitions to employ military force on U.S. soil have resurfaced, raising complex questions about legality, ethics, and historical ...
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Trump Could 'Destroy' Pentagon and Upend Rule of Law if Reelected, Senate Armed Services Chairman Warns
While acknowledging that any reforms to the laws would be a heavy lift with Republicans, Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., called for changes to the Insurrection Act and Posse Comitatus Act amid GOP ...
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No, a new Defense Department directive doesn’t authorize lethal force on U.S. civilians
The claims are inaccurate. The updated version of Directive 5240.01 grants no new power to the Defense Department and does not grant legal authority for the military to use lethal force on civilians, ...
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In swing states and beyond, ‘War Game’ sounds a warning
“I’ve been polling audiences, and they’re pretty evenly split on whether or not the president should invoke the Insurrection Act to quell this uprising,” says co-director Jesse Mos ...
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Forget Matt Gaetz. Merrick Garland Is America’s Worst Attorney General.
Let people debate whether President-elect Donald Trump’s headline-grabbing pick of former Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz as his attorney general will be good, bad or really ugly. But there is no debate ...
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Donald Trump Is Not Adolf Hitler. Mussolini Is More His Style | Opinion
As we close in on Nov. 5 and Judgment Day for American democracy, the specter of Benito Mussolini's seizure of power in Italy a century ago has been keeping me up at night.