On June 1, 2020, President Donald Trump suggested he would invoke the Insurrection Act to send active-duty troops into American cities to suppress nationwide protests against police violence. In a new ACS Issue Brief, Professor Harold Hongju Koh of Yale Law School, and Michael Loughlin, Yale Law School Class of 2021, explain that the Insurrection Act does not provide legal cover for President Trump’s claim that he can deploy U.S. troops to American cities over the objection of state...
