In the wake of an attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minnesota, President Donald Trump has once again raised the specter of invoking the Insurrection Act. In a Jan. 15 Truth Social post, Trump warned that if Minnesota officials failed to uphold federal law and restrain what he called “professional agitators and insurrectionists,” he would “institute the INSURRECTION ACT… and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State.”
The statement has reignited a long-standing debate over one of the most powerful—and controversial—authorities vested in the. . .