President Donald Trump has threatened to use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota following an attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the state.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Jan. 15.
The law allows the president to deploy troops to counter an insurrection or armed rebellion. It serves as an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prevents the use of the military for civilian law enforcement….