A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

WASHINGTON — White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump’s invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the United States for law enforcement purposes, five people with knowledge of the talks told NBC News.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    3 days ago

    But the problem is that a plurality of the voting populace in this country WANTED this shit.

    I mean not really when you take voter suppression and other tactics into account. That’s not to even mention the handful of lawsuits from the election that are currently ongoing showing mathematical ilregularities, borderline impossibbilities.