The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C. §§ 331–335) lays out several scenarios where a president may deploy federal troops domestically. The key point is that the law uses very vague standards:
“Whenever there is an insurrection” in a state and the governor requests help.
Whenever the president “considers” that unlawful obstructions or rebellion make it “impracticable” to enforce federal law by normal means.
Whenever people are being denied constitutional rights, and the state cannot or will not protect them Source: ai
is a United States federal law (10 U.S.C. §§ 251 – 255; prior to 2016, 10 U.S.C. §§ 331–335; amended 2006, 2007) that empowers the President of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection and rebellion.
In Hartford, Connecticut, the first constitution in the American colonies, the “Fundamental Orders,” is adopted by representatives of Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford. The Dutch discovered the Connecticut River in 1614, but English Puritans from Massachusetts largely …read more
As a teenager, she made history, but it took decades for her to become recognized for her courage and achievements.
source: biography.com
first posted 2015
A full nine months before Rosa Parks‘s famous act of civil disobedience, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin is arrested on March 2, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus.
Colvin was traveling home from school when the bus’ driver ordered her, along with three fellow Black students, to give up their row of seats to a white passenger. Colvin’s friends obliged, but she refused to move. At school, she had recently learned about abolitionists, and later recalled that “it felt like Sojourner Truth was on one side pushing me down, and Harriet Tubman was on the other side of me pushing me down. I couldn’t get up.”
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