On the recordFebruary 5, 2024
The Insurrection Act... grants the President the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain conditions.
Said by
Norman Eisen
Source
congress.govThe Insurrection Act... grants the President the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain conditions.
Eisen explains the powers granted by the Insurrection Act.
Share
More from Norman Eisen
What he has done is reprehensible, unlawful, an insult to the Constitution, and an insult to the idea of America.
What Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who Trump admires, has done in Hungary is probably the right comparison to what might happen here in a second term.
If he were elected to a second term, this time, he might do damage that would be irreparable.
It's an abuse of the public interest for private gain that is very like the pattern in the White House.