As the Trump administration threatens to send National Guard troops into big cities to quell disorder, local prosecutors invoked a law from the Red Scare era of American history used to prosecute anarchists to bring new felony charges against protesters arrested after a pro-Palestinian rally in Boston Tuesday turned violent .

Thirteen protesters are charged with violating the “prohibition of the promotion of anarchy,” also referred to in legal documents as “inciting a riot.” A conviction carries a punishment of up to three years in prison. The law also bans a convicted person from working as a teacher or an administrator in public or private schools, even if they did not serve a prison sentence.

Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden, a Boston Democrat, insisted in a statement that the

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