President Trump has discussed invoking the Insurrection Act as a way to further deploy the military to U.S. cities.

The statute has been used by past presidents in moments of extraordinary crisis and political upheaval.

Legal experts said it could be difficult to challenge Trump’s authority to use the Insurrection Act.

There are few laws President Trump name-checks more frequently than the Insurrection Act.

A 200-year-old constellation of statutes, the act grants emergency powers to thrust active-duty soldiers into civilian police duty, something otherwise barred by federal law.

Trump and his team have threatened to invoke it almost daily for weeks — most recently on Monday, after a reporter pressed the president about his escalating efforts to dispatch federalized troops to Democrat-

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