Trump has been fixated on the Insurrection Act since nationwide protests broke out over the police killing of George Floyd during his first term, but he never invoked it. There wasn’t an insurrection then, experts on the Act told TPM, and there isn’t one now.

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In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.

The 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the current Federal Reserve System and introduced a central bank to oversee U.S. monetary policy.

The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's best for threatened species.

President Donald Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell protests in Minnesota have sparked warnings from Trump critics. Trump has several times threatened to invoke the 1807 act, a federal law that allows the president to deploy the military and National Guard to quell unrest,